What name does your doctor give the stirrups?

When the doctor asks you to put your feet in the stirrups, what name does he/she call them? During my wife's and ex-girlfriends' exams, I have heard the doctors call them foot rests, heel rests, holders, and spreaders. Any other unique names out there?

My doctor has always called the stirrups

Like most, I'm sure my doctors have just called them stirrups. Did have one or two call them heel stirrups. One friend said her doctor was being pretty familiar with her once and called them "his special girl holders". Not used very often by other doctors I'll bet

Thew few times I've been present when my wife was examined "footrests" was always the term used.

My real doc and my play doc both call them stirrups. I like the idea of "special girl holders" though, at least I would from my play doc, not so much from the real doc.

I suppose a quick clarification of is it a play doctor or real doctor would have a big part of peoples answers. One of those moments when calling it something inappropriate might scar someone for a while.

I've only been examined in the stirrups once and that was in a hospital clinic. They aren't very common in the UK and aren't used for routine smears. They were full on poles so that you had to put your feet up in the air and your "back bottom" was on show as well as your "front bottom". He called them "examination posts".

My doctors have called them stirrups, with one calling them foot rests.

Always stirrups even when they are actually leg rests

"special girl holders" seems like a fun phrase to use in a play exam

My wife's gyno once called them the oven mitts, because that is what she covered them with for patient comfort.

I think I"ve mostly just heard "put your feet up."

I realize that in some clinics the stirrups stay out the whole time. However, in others, the doctor has to take them out and position them. For patients where there is done, does he say anything such as "I'm going to extend the stirrups now?" I figure he has to give you some sort of warning so that you know to get your legs out of the way.

Mine calls them stirrups and sometimes for the rest

Not sure, she has never called them anything, She just helps my wife put her feet in them after the abdominal exam.

Just sitrrups there is no special or unique name for them

Stirrups.

By the time you get to the gynecologist, you shouldn't need baby names for them, although leg rests or foot rests would be perfectly fine.

Stirrups or foot rests, I've had different doctors use both terms. But stirrups have been most frequently used.

I don't know what a doctor calls them, but I can attest to what my daughter calls them. In a text that she managed to send to two hundred people including me, she was describing in great detail her recent gyn exam and called the stirrups, "those holders at the end of the table that help keep your legs open."

As I have mentioned before, during my time as a middle school teacher, I cannot tell you the number of times that I was privy to notes about gynecological issues. One note that I picked up out of the wastebasket(the wastebasket at a middle school is a great source of information), a girl described the stirrups as those things you put knees in to spread you wide open so the doctor can examine your front hole and buttonhole.

I've only heard them referred to as stirrups.

Stirrups is the most used word.

My doctor,usually just tells me once I have removed my clothing and put on the gown,to hope up on the table and lay back. Then to slip my feet into the stirrups,and slide my bottom to the edge of the table!!

Dreaded stirrups or shiny stirrups, hated stirrups or just stirrups.

The dr calls them stirrups to my girlfriend when its time to put her feet in them

I'm a guy and BOTH my regular internist and urologist have examined me with my legs spread wide open and apart using stirrups. (I recall BOTH doctors referring to them as "leg rests")

I commeneted a few years ago during one physical exam as to WHY I am put into that somewhat embarrsaing position - the doctor's response was that it allows him to fully examine my genitals, scrotum, peri-anal region and rectum, without the patient hacing to constantly shift positions.