Examination | Scoliosis examination memorie…

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How many of you have had a scoliosis examination at school ?

Only had one in 7th grade during physical education class. We lined up with our tee shirts removed still wearing our sports bra, backs to the big steel wall that divided our side of the gym from the boys side. As our p.e. teacher called our names we stepped to the center of the gym removed our sports bra and were checked by the school nurse. Unlike a school physicals that was more of a serious perhaps humiliating experience, this was a quick giggly event as we glanced at our class mates doing our topless striptease act.

Scoliosis checks was more of a turn-on for us girls than for the boys who viewed theirs as nothing.

JakeNewYork

We had this during regular school or sports physicals but I remember a couple of times in elementary school and then again a couple times in Jr/Sr High school that it was done separately, along with some posture/gait assessment stuff. We were told to take off shirts, shoes and socks and roll our pant legs up to expose our ankles and when we did the bending over part for scoliosis, we would undo our belt/pants so they could be loose in the back.

rapide040

Cannot remember ever having a specific scoliosis examination at school. The only real exam I can distinctly remember was at senior school at about 14yo in my underpants and socks, but no recollection of examining my back at all or having me bend over. I can remember him pulling the front of my underpants down though without any warning.

maletist

I only had this done twice, in the 7th & 8th grades (ages 13 & 14). They were very fast & incomplete, as about 50 boys were lined up in the gym, stripped to the waist, with only about 40 mins. to do them all.

Strangely enough, I never had another one, neither in the 9th grade or high school.

Skikds

This made me stop and think a little. I recall having these checks in 6 through 8 grade And it was done in the school … the only medical stuff that I ever remember in school. we knew it was coming (I’m sure there was a handout and a permission slip) and then we would go down to the nurses office and she’d have us come in one by one and take off our shirt and bend over. I also recall her running her fingers down the spine. One of the years I think we had a bunch of us in line and they had us waiting without our shirts.

didnt seem to matter if you had this check during your normal exam … which I also recall. But this was all short lived - it didn’t continue into high school nor do I recall hearing about it again.

iamweasel2112

Yeah, this was the only real group exam type experience I ever had – we actually had a mobile RV come to our school and they had all go inside the RV a few kids at a time and take our shirts off, I think it was 7th grade