Barefoot during exam

I prefer keeping the socks on if I wear shoes to my doctor's clinic.

At the gynecologist if I ever go I make sure I remove my socks as a preference.

None of the doctors specify anything.

Patients on recent head to toe exam videos remove their socks and walk around barefoot.

As to if the students will still ask patients to do this once they're actually working, who knows, but at least they are taught it.

There are plenty of videos with cute female nurses, though this one features a male student and male patient.

Lower extremities exam at 21:00 https://youtu.be/-4LiJNswJKw

I always take my socks off for the exam. I’ve never tried to keep them on but when the nurse says everything off except underwear, I usually just assumed that meant socks too.

Usually at the beginning of the exam I'm totally dressed and sit at desk in front of the Doctor for the initial interview.

Then the Doctor ask me to remove everything except for the panties, in this way he can perform the first exams (weight, body measurement, blood pressure etc.) after this he orders to remove the panties for a thorough genital and anal examination.

From this point of the visit I'm always totally naked at the complete disposal of the Doctor (fully embarrassed of course 😊).

I think that most Doctors require to be totally naked for a complete and extensive examination.

For this reason socks off is a must 😅

When I was younger I remember the nurse very specifically telling me to take my socks off. The doctor always checked my feet as part of my physical.

now my doctor doesn’t instruct me to take them off, but I do anyways. I’m not fond of the bare legs socked feet combo. It just feels weird.

I had to be barefoot in my early childhood during visits to the dermatologist, when I was completely naked. I think I was wearing socks at the pediatrician's, but I'm not completely sure. However, barefoot was examined during a military medical examination. We were instructed to enter the room where the exam took place only in panties.

When I was younger I remember the nurse very specifically telling me to take my socks off. The doctor always checked my feet as part of my physical.

now my doctor doesn’t instruct me to take them off, but I do anyways. I’m not fond of the bare legs socked feet combo. It just feels weird.

@Amanda_O I tend to agree that the socked feet and bare legs is not a good look. When my legs are bare then my feet are bare as well lol! Do you remember what the nurse said specifically?

I am barefoot in my exams

I recently had a dermatologist exam and the doctor examined my feet so obviously I had to be barefoot for that. I was considering not taking off my socks when undressing since I didn’t think he would examine my feet but it’s a good thing I decided to take them off!

The only time my socks normally come off is at the rheumatologist. They check for inflammation in joints that I may not notice.

I am always usually

Anyone know why in real exams you may be barefoot. sometimes no. Sometimes yes.

but In those instructors exams / nursing ones, head to toe exams, or physical examinatioan on YouTube, like 90 % of the time they are barefoot and that babinski is definitely checked.

my babinski was only checked once. It tickled but its not a regular thing. being barefoot is becoming mire and mire common as I’m 25 now. the only thing I’m taking off is socks

also are you more likely to have to be barefoot in an exam if you wear longer nike shun height thick sports socks over ankle socks? Would those make a difference? I did have those on.. the thick Nike ones, could that have made me go barefoot ?

Would perhaps taking your socks off have to do with the doctor not wishing for someone to slip on what are usually clean and shiny floors? Bare feet have a better grip on floors when you need to walk around.

Is that liability? when I walk around barwfoot it is usually because we are inbetween tests like reflexes and something else where putting my socks is out of the way. if i wore flip flops im sure i could just slide them on but wearing athletic socks you are pretty much barefoot through the whole exam From the reflexes onwards.

I always was barefoot during my exams growing up. It was part of the “take ev off but your underwear” routine. The cold of the tile floor on my bare feet I found strangely erotic as I think it somehow made me feel more vulnerable to be left with just my underwear on - which I knew would eventually be pulled down or back.

Always been barefooted.

Never been to a point where i have to take my shoes off… let alone my socks

It has depended; some of my doctors had me barefoot, others don't seem to care. As for play docs definitely barefoot the whole time and with a thorough foot exam as well! Love the feeling of having to stand in front of the doctor on a cold hard floor barefoot.

My s/o, 26 y/o healthy male, went in for a physical today and i drove him. It was pretty standard.

He did the EKG, ears, nose, throat, basic stuff. He took off his shirt briefly.

At the foot part, the doctor slid his socks half off to do the ankle reflex and then pushed them down even more to check his foot pulses. The socks still covered his toes though for a minute or so.

Then the socks came off completely and the doctor started checking pulses and stuff in his toes. Gotta say, lots of emphasis on his toes. When the doctor left I jokingly grabbed my bf's big toe and gave him a little tickle because i found it funny he got his toes checked. It was pretty neat to watch too.

@Bosguy95 That's great that you got to watch his exam. Unusual that the doctor would slide his socks down inspect/palpate a few times before actually removing them, what was the purpose? Did he have to remove anything else?

For normal head to toe exams I am always barefoode

at the gynecologist it depends on what I wear that day and the time of the year

@Bosguy95 That's great that you got to watch his exam. Unusual that the doctor would slide his socks down inspect/palpate a few times before actually removing them, what was the purpose? Did he have to remove anything else?

So he went in for his pre-employment physical. He works in consulting so when he gets different projects he goes in for different physicals. So i went with him because we were doing something after.

And yes i also found it unusual he did that too before completely coming off. It looked like he was checking pulses maybe? He initially pulled the sock down for achilies reflex then the pulses. Then the socks came off for his toes. That was the end of the exam and the doctor/pa briefly left.

He took off his shirt briefly for an ekg.

But first time he's ever been barefoot for an exam, even though it was the last two minutes of the exam and the follow up part. Then he put his socks back on.

For a medical, I was told to strip to my underpants for all the ones I had whilst at school. If I saw my GP he would usually have me undress to my underpants also, but would only remove them if it was essential to the exam, which occasionally it was. If I’ve undressed at the Drs it’s nearly always meant my socks coming off.

I had an exam yesterday.

We did the weight in the hallway on our way back to the room. I slipped my shoes off for that. Then, I picked them up to follow her back to the room. She told me to stop and put my shoes back on. That was it.

In school and even undergrad I was always told to take off "Shirt, shoes, socks". As an adult, I automatically take off my shoes and socks. I like to be barefoot as well so this does not bother me.

I cannot think of a case where if the shoes came off, the socks didn't also come off. I would feel so strange wearing underwear and socks, no matter how cold the room was. Then again, I am barefoot as much as possibly can be; i only wear fuzzy socks if it is really cold in the house in the winter or if I am about to put on shoes or boots.

For a weight in an exam, typically would just slip off the shoes like others here. But then the shoes go right back on. I have had exams with shoes/socks both on and off. If a doctor or nurse told me to take off my shoes, the socks would come off automatically.

I am almost every time requested to start the examination completely naked or at least to remove my socks during the exam. In a generic physical this is due to need to direct examinate feet. During some urological and neurological procedures feet are visually checked for twitching and tremors and shall be bare also for this reason.

I'm always barefoot during my exams except for getting weighed in my socks since I only have to take off my shoes for that

Back in the day when exams were truly that, yes, I was barefoot at the pediatrician pretty much every time and that extended into the GP after age 17. The pediatricians office I remember smelled like rubbing alcohol everywhere. It was completely spotless so walking on the (cold) floor or stepping onto the scales was not a problem, not that we were to question the doctor/nurses instructions anyway. The doctor would always check foot reflexes anyway so not wearing socks made sense.

Only at the dermatologist, where I am undressed down to my briefs and given a sheet for my lap.

My GP doesn't require me to be undressed at all.