Pectus Excavatum Pot Belly

One of the most frustrating issues with having pectus excavatum and a sunken chest is having a pot belly like appearance. This is not happening because you are overweight and even skinny people with PE had the tendency to have a pot belly appearance.

This is mainly due to the sunken sternum pushing down on the top of the stomach and forcing it to bulge forward , what I suggest is to buy a posture brace that helps to bring back the shoulders while at the same time suck in your gut , which helps greatly for improving flared ribs and bringing them back into a more neutral position.

Apart from that weight loss can definitely help and I have become a huge fan of using cinnamon in my protein shakes to boost my weight loss and it seems to working quite well so far, check out the link for more information

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Pectus Excavatum - Talked to a Nuss Surgeon Today

So I went into the royal children's hospital today, felt a bit strange considering I am in my late 20's surrounded by very young people with pectus excavatum. Was kinda nice having fellow PE people in the same room together.

I visited the nuss surgeon just so that he could examine me and inform me of whether the surgery was an option for me and would he be willing to perform the surgery.

Need the Surgery?

He examined me for a little while and apparently my pectus excavatum is very mild compared to ones he has seen and he said that it was really up to me whether I wanted the surgery as for me it was totally a COSMETIC surgery and nothing else but he was happy to perform the surgery on me as he had been doing the nuss surgery for around 10 years and was very experienced.

He didn't push me towards the surgery at all and was very reassuring that my condition was very mild so I left feeling quite a lot better , he also gave me a brochure on how the nuss procedure is performed and it kind of puts you off its a bit gory. For now I will continue to use exercises to try and fix my PE and I asked the surgeon about this and he said it couldn't hurt. Probably should have asked him more questions considering how much he charges for his time oh well at least I know the surgery is an option.

You can visit Pectus Excavatum Surgery , http://www.pesurgery.com for more information on the surgery procedure and its being updated weekly so there should be some updates coming son

Pectus Excavatum Exercise - Great links for people with PE like me

Haven't updated for quite some time have been working on a few websites with friends so I have some great links

http://hubpages.com/hub/Pectus-Excavatum-Repair-Part-2 -Pectus Excavatum Repair Part 2 - Exercise Routine to Improve Chest Appearance

http://hubpages.com/hub/What-is-Pectus-Excavatum - What is Pectus Excavatum - Growing up with PE, Causes, Surgery and Exercise

Pectus Excavatum Surgery

Deciding to get Pectus Excavatum Surgery – Patient Selection are You too Old for Nuss Surgery?

Pectus Excavatum Surgery – The Nuss Procedure Benefits

Pectus Excavatum Plastic Surgery – Pectus Excavatum Insert

Broom Twists great for P.E

Another great no brainer exercise to loosen up tight back muscles and bring in flared ribs , is by doing simple broom twists everyday.

Just get a broom or long stick , curtain rod or whatever u have lying around and rest it behind your neck and grab the stick at shoulder width and then proceed to look straight forward while you twist at the trunk. Take it easy and gradually work your way to twisting more and more as you get more comfortable with the exercise.

Go team pectus:P

Weighted Exercise to improve P.E

I know there is a lot of misconception when it comes to using weighted exercises to improve your P.E as yes we all know there is no actual muscle around your sternum that actually be built up enough to cover your sunken chest. Unless you plan on building godly pecs but this could take a long time or forever for those of us with less than godly genetics.

There are exercises using weights that can help push out the sternum and helpto expand your rib cage and the most important of them is the Dumbell pullover, even arnold does them it can give your chest a larger appearance aswell as pushing out that sternum.

and ofcourse any sort of posture exercise will help , even if you just stand straight for 5 - 10 minutes a day and breath in and out deeply you will start to feeel your chest pushing out. Go get you p.e people until next time, even though i doubt anyone reads this

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Deep breathing & Yoga

Hello all.

I recently downloaded a great PDF on yoga and its benefits for people with pectus excavatum from pectuslist.com, and have been doing the stretches now and I can definitely feel my tight back muscles due to my P.E loosening up.

I have also started doing the deep breathing exercises, to help expand my ribcage and push out the sternum. Its a strange sensation having P.E and doing deep breathing as I can pretty much see my heart pulsating under a thing layer of skin , pushing up and down on my sternum as it pump ( not in a painful way though) 

My deep breathing consists of me maintaing good posture then breathing in deeply and slowly until totally full , holding my breath for 6-10 second then exhaling slowly remaining upright with good posture. 

Also a great exercise for those with flared ribs that you could try out , get a back brace and wrap it around your core , around the ribs. Then jump on a flat bench or bed and do some dumbell flys, This work well as the ribs try and flare out as you do this exercise and the brace guides them into the correct position.

Until next time my fellow P.E people

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