Stirrup Positioning

My table has 3 fixed clicks for the spread of the stirrups. The narrowest position is about even with the ends of the table. The far position is at about a 45 degree angle from the table, and the mid position is about half way in between.

The stirrups themselves slide on rails so they can be nearer of farther from the end of the table.

When I do play exams I generally use the wide position and the stirrups all the way out.

However seeing my SO at the gyno, it seems that they generally use a much less aggressive angle, like the not really spread position) but pull the stirrups some.

When you are at the gyno how do they have the stirrups set? Also, how do they have the back set? I have found they seem to use the back at more of a recline rather than flat. This seems to make the position more of a slide in position.

If you are a really tall or short gal, has the doctor ever had to adjust the stirrups just for you?

Thanks for your input!

Since my wife is 5 feet 8 inches tall and has fairly long legs, I have seen the PA that examines her pull the stirrups all the way out and open them wide to the 3rd setting. Like you said about 45 degrees out from the end of the table. She is very flexible anyway so the wide angle doesn't bother her. The head end of the table is usually elevated between 20 and 30 degrees or so. The sight of her in position on that exam table really fires me up!

>The sight of her in position on that exam table really fires me up!

I saw my SO in knee crutch stirrups and when the doctor turned the light on. Oh my god. It was the hottest thing I had ever seen. That was her first time in them and the doctor had to help her into them and help her get positioned. That was hot, but when the light came on. Whew!! Now we have a set of knee crutch stirrups of our own.

I think my gynecologist had to adjust the leg supports just for me for both of my exams because I am 5'11" and my legs are long. I am a lot taller than the British average 5'5" so the average position for the supports would not be right for me. The back was reclined and not flat as well. It was comfortable for me and I do not think I would just like to lay flat on my back. I am flexible too and I think I could have had the leg supports set just a bit wider and I would not have been in a position that was uncomfortable for me.

I have heard the stirrup arms being pulled out and the last time I know he spread them as far apart as they would go because after he left the room I tried to move then farther apart and I couldn't. also they were fully extended out. The arms holding the stirrups were all the way out from the table. My new husband went wild when I described that exam.

MelissaS, Do you know how to adjust the stirrups? If the table is one of the type with the three "settings" there is a trick. You need to push them back in a ways do disengage them from their stops before you can change the angle, than pull them all the way back out again to lock them in place.

On my table, I have to lift the bars to spread them

I am always spread to the third setting. I am 5'9 1/2" so my legs are really long.

For my exams,I soooo prefer to be spread WIDE open,just feels so much better.I am always soooo eager to be in the stirrups!!!

When I arrive into the room the stirrups are not out and the table is at an incline. When the doctor comes he checks my neck and has me lie back. As I lie back he pulls out the extender and adjusts the table so I am flat on my back with my legs flat and does the breast exam and briefly feels my abdomen. Then he pulls out the stirrups and pushes the extender back in a has me scoot down all the way to the end of the table. Still flat on my back. He often pushes my legs open wider. I didn't realize the stirrups went any farther apart but recently I went in to have my expired IUD removed and a new one inserted and he originally positioned the stirrups the same way he positions them for the exam but then he had some difficulties putting in the new one and ended pushing the stirrups out further evidently so he had more room to work.

Every exam i have been too has had the stirrups out and ready. I am oblivious to any alternate settings for them...I just assumed they only have one. I just put my feet in them when instructed to...she has never adjusted them. Since my hubby and I have had exams at the same time each year, I make the joke that he is first each year. Sje always does mine first and then puts the stirrups away when she changes the paper on the table for him. Which I by thr way find odd as we are married, share body fluids and such...no need to waste the paper. I even joked with her last year that this is my way of being green...it got a laugh.

When we walk in the stirrups are out and ready. After she is told to take everything off nad put in the paper gown and have it open in the front. She sits and waits until the dr comes in and they listen to her lungs and puts her in the stirrups. Does the breast exam right then left the different arm positions. Then the abdomen. Then to my favorite part scoot down a little more my lady tells me she feels is going offf the end before it is enough. Then the pap, then bi manual, and then the rectal. Then told to get dressed. This is the time I have taken things we can use at home for the office. One of my favorite days of the years. When I go to the dr with my lady.

At my gyno doctors office, I have seen the stirrups both in and out. Because I am 4,11 my legs are short. But I also have arthritis in both Knees. So usually my doctor puts the stirrups on the second setting. The back of the table is up slightly.

Spread wide is the best to where your cheeks just open right up also laid all the way back

My wife is quite tall 5 . 8 so she's all ways had her legs spread very wide.

Fun fun ?

Thinking that the patient might be counting the clicks is one of those subtle great things about medfet and play examinations, the little detail of just how wide are the stirrups.

MrsFn has told me that at her actual gyno appointments, her doctor just leaves the stirrups in the first position, pulled straight out.

When DrFn gives her a thorough play exam, it is a different story. Her feet are placed into the stirrups and then adjusted to the widest position. DrFn enjoys her legs spread nice and wide.

Interestingly enough, and try this for yourself, I too like the "wide" stirrup position, but I am not sure the area of interest is any less exposed in the most

inline position. I think it is easier for her to let her knees fall open when her feet are closer together, and god knows I love telling her to just let her knees fall open, and gently helping her put them where I want them.

Having the stirrups at the widest setting has to be the best