Foot stirrups vs. leg rests preferences

This is for the ladies out there....I was just wondering if when you have to be examined, do you find that doctors in the USA use stirrups or leg rests to hold your legs open.

In the videos, we see a lot of the leg rests and not a lot of stirrups being used but I was wondering what is going on in reality.

Like to daydream but want to do it as close to real as possible

I have always had to place my feet in the stirrups.

As a male that has seen more than his fair share of OB/GYN offices and ORs (work related), my experience is that stirrups are more the norm for the office environment while leg/knee rests are more the norm for OB procedures in the OR setting. Leg rests are understable in the OR, but my guess as to why stirrups are the norm in the office is both because of space and ease of knock down/fold up into the table and out of the way. Having been only in a leg rest once myself while unconcious in the OR, I can't say which is more comfortable/uncomfortable.

When I lived in DC, my doc had leg rests ... and he also had me completely naked for every exam ... here, in Alabama, every doc I've seen uses stirrups and has sheets and gowns and paper vests and all manner of stuff to cover me to protect my modesty ... wonder if that is a regional difference in the US or if I just had a kinky doc in DC?

BTW, leg rests are really far more comfortable if your legs will be up and open for any longer than three minutes ...

I've always had stirrups, but leg rests look more comfortable.

Stirrups project further from the exam table and are lower than leg rests.

The patients rests the heels of their feet into the stirrups.

With leg rests the patient places their legs, just above the knee, into the rests. Their lower legs hang free from the rests.

I'm in the UK and the only time I had any support was during childbirth. They were leg rests then and quite comfortable.

Im in the uk and had neither 😢

I have only ever had the stirrups, but have seen the leg rests in the urology clinic. Would like to sneak over the the urology clinic sometime and try out the leg rests.

Ive only had the stirrups in real exams but ive had the leg rests in several play exams and my feelings are that they are more comfortable especially for a long session but i like them because i think they are more humiliating. When im in the leg rests i just feel more exposed and wide open. i think its a more embarrasing position

rikki

What is the difference between stirrups and leg rests?

I have had both, but the most common, stirrups.

I've always had stirrups, but I think that leg rests look more comfortable. But in my home office/play space I have stirrups on my table. call me old fashioned, but I think that it's better.

I have always had exams with stirrups.

A couple of weeks ago I was at my GP to see the practice nurse for a blood sample to be taken. As I sat in the waiting room i saw a good looking woman who o I would say to be in her mid 30s come out of the nurse's room.

About 2 or 3 minutes later the nurse called me into the room and I sat down at her desk while she got the syringe ready.The curtain around the exam table was drawn half open and that is when I saw that it had leg/knee rest attached to it and the

bottom part was folded down. Lying in a plastic tray on a trolley beside a stool on wheels was a metal speculum,tube of KY and a box of rubber gloves.

It was obvious that the woman who had in before me had been on the table less than 10 minutes before legs in the rests and the speculum inside her.

Stirrups

Leg rests 😉 😁

More comfortable...but gyn-surgeans recommand stirrups, espacially for longer surgeries...

I concur with what Helene mentioned. I have lived in several different areas in the U.S. and the modesty issues as well as the use of stirrups vs. leg rests varies greatly. Having been a patient at several doctor's offices where leg rest were used I can attest to the fact that they are far more comfortable than stirrups. As to which actually provides better access for the doctor while doing various exam work and proceedures, I will have to bow to someone with professional background and knowledge.

I love legrests/knee supports.

And although almost never used I realy like it when there are straps attached to them.

The fact that you are spread and have no uppurtunity to close them is so arousing.

Gives me a mandatory thought

Yes, Carla, leg rests with wide leather cuffs for the ankles and just above the knees. You must be overwhelmed with the thought of vulnerability as someone approaches you from the front, with you being unable to bring you legs together.

A nice, wide leather strap over your belly will do nicely to keep you from lifting your hips off the table. You need to be very still and unable to move away from what is about to happen to you.

Keep those hands to the sides of the table, better yet, let me wrap them in the nice, soft leather cuffs. You will appreciate it later as you will not be able to interfere or move anything.

And to keep you lying back on the table so your breasts will be at the mercy of my fingers, let me secure you with one more wide leather strap across your chest and just above your breasts.

There, I hope you are comfortable. Oh, don't worry about the vibrators - there AC powered. No chance of the batteries running down.

I'm male and have been in leg rests for extended procedures- removal of kidney stones. I choose an epidural (instead of general) to be awake for the erotic visual (and memory) of being stripped and put in the leg rests, scrubbed by the nurse and the doc/nurse between my lifted and spread legs.

I've been to every ob/gyn exam with my wife, seen it all. She likes to have me watch her being handled by the doc/nurse. She says the stirrups are not very comfortable. The leg rests are her favorite.

When I see a Gyn here, they have always put me in stirrups, and I wear a gown, naked underneath. As someone pointed out, it is probably a regional difference, and it probably saves space pulling the stirrups in and out. While we were stationed in Germany, I saw a physician for my annual physical, and I was examined in an examining chair with leg rest, without a gown. I find the chair with the leg rests to be more comfortable. I also like the angle of being in the chair with the leg rests, you can see the doctor's face. It is different from lying flat on your back in stirrups, and staring at the ceiling.

Stirups they are more comftorable and hold the lges open easier and wider my old boss had a table with leg rests i ahted using it and it was awful when the patient was a little squirmy

I like to vary my avatar from time to time. I just updated it with a screen capture of a leg rest with an ankle strap. The resolution is not the best. I will try to improve the image.

I like to image standing in front of my partner, her legs strapped into a set of leg rests, while I slowly begin to approach her. A vibrator within my hand comes to life with the flick of a switch. I gaze into her eyes, watching her anticipation. My hand slowly moves towards her crotch. Her eyes follow the motion of my hand.

My doctor uses the heel stirrups. They're ok. Nothing spectacular.

Legrests (sometimes called knee supports) support the calves.

Stirrups, as when used by horseriders, support the sole of the foot or the heel sits in them

Leg rests are much more common in portugal in fact i never saw stirrups in portugal. I find leg rests more erotic and believe must be more confortable to the ladies

I prefer and like the stirrups and that is mostly what is used where i am from.

For all my real life gyn exams I've been put into regular heel stirrups.

I've had two cystocopies and awake during both. The first one I had I was placed in knee supports and was laying flat. I had no control of my legs whatsoever and I loved it. I was even strapped in with velcro straps.

The second cysto was done in a doctor's office and regular heel stirrups were used. I was in them for close to half an hour and my feet were killing me by the time he was done.

I love the look of the slighly reclining exam chair and I'd like to be in one with my legs draped over the knee supports, being positioned however the doctor needed me.

I live in the Midwest and my girlfriend's doctors have all used stirrups during her exams.