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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