The complete non-surgical system for pectus excavatum, carinatum, and rib flare.
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I'm Mihail. I had pectus excavatum. Instead of surgery, I spent a decade testing every non-surgical approach I could find - exercises, breathing protocols, vacuum bells, custom braces.
I fixed my own chest. Then I built a system so you can too.
The protocols I teach are the exact ones that worked for me, and for over a thousand people since. I run this alone. Every inquiry comes to me directly.
The surgeon who checks the case for not operating performs the operation for a living. That is the whole point. If the non-surgical argument on this site cannot survive a chest wall surgeon reading it, it does not belong here.
These three behave nothing alike, so I don't hand out the same plan for all of them. Each one gets its own non-surgical route.
Eleven years of work, in the order most people need it. Start wherever your case actually is.
A plan written for your chest, equipment built to your measurements, and my phone number. No middle layer.
See coaching - $199/mo→I build your vacuum bell or brace from your own measurements, 3D-printed and shipped to your door.
See equipment→Sixteen weeks per condition. Works in a gym or on a bedroom floor.
View programs→The complete 1,127-page non-surgical system for pectus excavatum.
Read the eBook→Practical guides for braces, the vacuum bell and confidence.
Browse guides→Ships 31 Aug 2026The whole method on video, for all three conditions. Still being filmed — pre-order at $97 instead of $197 and it lands in your inbox on 31 Aug 2026.
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500+ reviews collected since 2015. Open a bar, a tag or a condition to read the published ones.
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18 published statements · 500+ collected since 2015
I came across your blog about a year ago and I just want to say how much you've changed my life for the better. I thought it was going to be another average article, but the tips you gave were things I hadn't heard of before. Now I've improved so much and im more confident then ever.
CristianPE17
Read the blogUSA 🇺🇸
read the blog for months before i actually did anything with it. no coach, no brace, just the stuff in the articles done properly. i feel a lot better now and the photos say the rest
DaniloPE
Read the blogCroatia 🇭🇷
Two months in and I've put on 3 kg of muscle. My chest doesn't cave the way it used to when I'm standing relaxed, and that alone was worth it.
MiloPE25
1-on-1 CoachingGermany 🇩🇪
Had the flare since i was about 14 and just assumed that was my ribcage, permanently. Brace plus the breathing drills and my mrs asked when i'd lost weight. I hadn't lost anything, it's just the ribs sitting where they should now.
DanielRib Flare27
Rib Flare BraceUK 🇬🇧
first call he told me straight up itd take a year and id hate months 2 through 5. he was right about both lol. 12 months on and my PC is flat. took my shirt off at the beach in january without doing the whole towel thing
DimiPC19
1-on-1 CoachingAustralia 🇦🇺
didnt know you could be breathing wrong for 21 years. thats the whole thing right there. flare started going down on its own once i stopped breathing into my shoulders, which is not what i paid for but ill take it
benjiRib Flare21
Rib Flare CourseUSA 🇺🇸
the bell leaves a red ring on your chest the second you take it off, and nobody warns you about that. it fades within the hour and the skin has never been an issue since. 100% satisfied - the sternum sits higher than it has my whole life
PiotrPE25
Vacuum BellPoland 🇵🇱
the brace is made really good, i wear it under the t-shirt at school and nobody has noticed in 4 months. my mother was crying when we compare the photos. sorry for my english
NicoPC17
Pectus Carinatum BraceItaly 🇮🇹
He knows more about this than the two consultants I paid to see, which says more about them than it does about him. Showed my GP the 9 month photos and he asked me for the website. Half a star off because the time zones make the calls a nightmare from Ireland.
RuairíPE29
1-on-1 CoachingIreland 🇮🇪
ive bought like four programs for this over the years and quit every one of them by week two. finished this one. i think its cus you cant move on until you can actually hold the position, so theres never that thing where you're guessing if youre ready or not
MateoRib Flare23
Rib Flare CourseUSA 🇺🇸
watched the youtube for six years before i spent a single cent. bought the program, did it properly for 7 months, and the only thing i actually regret is the six years
TanePE26
PE Exercise ProgramNew Zealand 🇳🇿
My son is 15 and had started keeping a shirt on in the pool, which is how I worked out something was wrong in the first place, because he certainly wasn't going to tell me. He would never have stuck with the brace on his own. It was the fortnightly check-ins that did it - he didn't want to turn up with nothing to report. Six months now and the ridge has visibly come down. He swims without the shirt.
Noah's mumPC
Pectus Carinatum BraceUSA 🇺🇸
I went in wanting to debunk it, honestly. Started opening the citations one at a time and they were real papers that said what he said they said. That is a depressingly low bar and nowhere else online clears it.
SanderRib Flare34
Read the blogNetherlands 🇳🇱
every doctor said come back when youre done growing, which is a mad thing to say to a 17 year old whos already miserable about it. did four months of training instead. 4kg on and my t shirts actually sit on something now
JakePE17
USA 🇺🇸
ridge is 0.6cm down in 5 months. bro i genuinely thought this was gonna be bench press for a year, its like 80% breathing drills and posture stuff. wasnt what i signed up for but i cant argue with the tape measure
EliasPC16
Norway 🇳🇴
1.1 cm off the depth in eight months. I had this filed under things about my body that got decided before I was born, and I'd stopped thinking about it somewhere in my twenties, so being wrong about it has been a strange few months honestly.
VincentPE + Rib Flare36
France 🇫🇷
i did abs for two years thinking that was the fix. it was never going to be abs. three months of the brace plus actually learning how to exhale properly and its 1.4cm narrower down there
AlexRib Flare22
USA 🇺🇸
i was the skinny kid who kept his top on at the beach every single year. 6 months, 5kg heavier. took it off in ibiza this summer and genuinely forgot to be weird about it until we were leaving
CallumPE17
UK 🇬🇧
"I came across your blog about a year ago and I just want to say how much you've changed my life for the better. I thought it was going to be another average article, but the tips you gave were things I hadn't heard of before. Now I've improved so much and im more confident then ever."
"read the blog for months before i actually did anything with it. no coach, no brace, just the stuff in the articles done properly. i feel a lot better now and the photos say the rest"
"Two months in and I've put on 3 kg of muscle. My chest doesn't cave the way it used to when I'm standing relaxed, and that alone was worth it."
"Had the flare since i was about 14 and just assumed that was my ribcage, permanently. Brace plus the breathing drills and my mrs asked when i'd lost weight. I hadn't lost anything, it's just the ribs sitting where they should now."
"first call he told me straight up itd take a year and id hate months 2 through 5. he was right about both lol. 12 months on and my PC is flat. took my shirt off at the beach in january without doing the whole towel thing"
"didnt know you could be breathing wrong for 21 years. thats the whole thing right there. flare started going down on its own once i stopped breathing into my shoulders, which is not what i paid for but ill take it"
"the bell leaves a red ring on your chest the second you take it off, and nobody warns you about that. it fades within the hour and the skin has never been an issue since. 100% satisfied - the sternum sits higher than it has my whole life"
"the brace is made really good, i wear it under the t-shirt at school and nobody has noticed in 4 months. my mother was crying when we compare the photos. sorry for my english"
"He knows more about this than the two consultants I paid to see, which says more about them than it does about him. Showed my GP the 9 month photos and he asked me for the website. Half a star off because the time zones make the calls a nightmare from Ireland."
"ive bought like four programs for this over the years and quit every one of them by week two. finished this one. i think its cus you cant move on until you can actually hold the position, so theres never that thing where you're guessing if youre ready or not"
"watched the youtube for six years before i spent a single cent. bought the program, did it properly for 7 months, and the only thing i actually regret is the six years"
"My son is 15 and had started keeping a shirt on in the pool, which is how I worked out something was wrong in the first place, because he certainly wasn't going to tell me. He would never have stuck with the brace on his own. It was the fortnightly check-ins that did it - he didn't want to turn up with nothing to report. Six months now and the ridge has visibly come down. He swims without the shirt."
"I went in wanting to debunk it, honestly. Started opening the citations one at a time and they were real papers that said what he said they said. That is a depressingly low bar and nowhere else online clears it."
I came across your blog about a year ago and I just want to say how much you've changed my life for the better. I thought it was going to be another average article, but the tips you gave were things I hadn't heard of before. Now I've improved so much and im more confident then ever.
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“I'm 32. Everything I ever read said the window on this shuts at 18 and after that you either get cut open or you live with it. Nine months, 5 kg on, 0.9 cm off the depth. Nobody is more annoyed about the wasted decade than me.”
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“came in skinny with a deep dip and ribs that stuck out at the bottom. six months, 4kg up. funny thing is nobody says anything about the dip, its the flare going down that people actually noticed”
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“I'm 52. I have both a ridge and a dip, which I'm told is unusual, and I've had the pair of them since I was a boy. Nine kilos off in five months and for the first time my chest looks like one chest. I did not expect to be sorting this out at my age, but there we are.”
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“The brace did the flare, the training did the rest. Seven months, 6 kg on, 0.9 cm off the depth. The part I wasn't ready for is that I now own shirts that fit, after about fifteen years of buying everything one size too big.”
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After“5 months, 4kg on. still there if i go looking for it. nobody else has said a word”
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“3 months and 5kg later the ridge is sitting lower than its ever been. i was 100% convinced surgery was the only option, like id already looked up how much it costs and everything”
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“9 kilos in 6 months. the trick nobody tells you is you build the muscle around the ridge, then the ridge is not the first thing people see. before this i am buying only loose shirts, maybe 8 years like this”
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“before, the carinatum is the first thing i see in every photo of me. now i show someone and they must ask me where it is. i did not have any surgery, only the training”
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“Four months in and the side profile is the thing that changed. I used to clock myself in every shop window I walked past, at 30 years old, and I hadn't even noticed I was doing it until I stopped.”
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After“read the blog for months before i actually did anything with it. no coach, no brace, just the stuff in the articles done properly. i feel a lot better now and the photos say the rest”
Before
After“the bell leaves a red ring on your chest the second you take it off, and nobody warns you about that. it fades within the hour and the skin has never been an issue since. 100% satisfied - the sternum sits higher than it has my whole life”
PE pectus excavatum · PC pectus carinatum · RF rib flare
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Case 01Case 02Case 03Case 04Case 05Jake / Age 17Pectus ExcavatumTimeline4 monthsLean mass+4 kg“every doctor said come back when youre done growing, which is a mad thing to say to a 17 year old whos already miserable about it. did four months of training instead. 4kg on and my t shirts actually sit on something now”
Elias / Age 16Pectus CarinatumTimeline5 monthsRidge height−0.6 cm“ridge is 0.6cm down in 5 months. bro i genuinely thought this was gonna be bench press for a year, its like 80% breathing drills and posture stuff. wasnt what i signed up for but i cant argue with the tape measure”
Vincent / Age 36Pectus Excavatum + Rib FlareTimeline8 monthsChest depth−1.1 cm“1.1 cm off the depth in eight months. I had this filed under things about my body that got decided before I was born, and I'd stopped thinking about it somewhere in my twenties, so being wrong about it has been a strange few months honestly.”
Alex / Age 22Rib FlareTimeline3 monthsRib flare−1.4 cm“i did abs for two years thinking that was the fix. it was never going to be abs. three months of the brace plus actually learning how to exhale properly and its 1.4cm narrower down there”
Callum / Age 17Pectus ExcavatumTimeline6 monthsLean mass+5 kg“i was the skinny kid who kept his top on at the beach every single year. 6 months, 5kg heavier. took it off in ibiza this summer and genuinely forgot to be weird about it until we were leaving”
The four that come up most, answered the same way I would answer them on a call.
Take the 60-second quizPosture and breathing shift inside the first few weeks. Visible chest change is slower - in the case log above, Milo hit his at 2 months, Ian at 6. The programs run 16 weeks because that is how long it takes to show in the mirror.
Almost certainly not. The clients on this page were 22 to 32 when they started. Cartilage stiffens with age, so progress is slower, but slower is not stopped. Age changes the timeline, not whether it is worth doing.
Either works. Every program ships with a gym track and a no-equipment track for the same 16 weeks, and you can switch between them mid-program without losing your place.
No, and that matters. A sunken chest and a protruding chest need close to opposite work, and rib flare rides along with both. There is a separate program for each, if you are not sure which you have, the 60-second quiz sorts it out.
I take on a small number of clients each month. Your case. My full attention.
Limited spots each month. Custom plan, fitted equipment, direct WhatsApp access, bi-weekly revisions - built around your specific case from day one.
Similar to the plans I run with 1-on-1 clients - structured so you can follow them on your own.
The complete PE correction protocol.
Everything I know works on pectus excavatum: the exercises, the breathing, when to use the bell and for how long, posture, mobility. Six modules, all of it runnable from your bedroom.
The brace does the work. This tells it where to push.
Carinatum corrects better than any other pectus type, but only if you actually wear the thing. Built around compliance, breathing, and the postural habits that decide your result. Every progression works while braced.
Close the flare. Fix the foundation.
Flared ribs are a diaphragm and core problem wearing a cosmetic disguise. Eight modules on the actual mechanism: how you breathe, how you brace, how the cage moves. Fix those and the flare stops coming back.
Custom vacuum bells and braces - 3D-printed to your exact measurements and shipped to your door.
Built around your measurements, not a size chart.
The bell is the most effective non-surgical tool there is for pectus excavatum, and the fit decides whether it works. I build each one to your chest measurements, so you are not adapting your body to a device made for someone else.
The brace I designed because nothing else existed.
I designed this one because the off-the-shelf braces I tried were built for posture, not for flare, and they pull in the wrong direction. This holds sustained compression exactly where the cage needs it.
Steady pressure, in the one place it belongs.
I build each of these to your chest circumference and how far your sternum sits forward. Pair it with the Carinatum Course and you have the whole protocol.
Structured training plans built around each condition's mechanics - zero guesswork about what to do in the gym.
Training that accounts for the dip in your chest.
Twelve weeks of chest opening, thoracic mobility and postural work, sequenced around what a sunken sternum actually does to your training. Generic chest days make the rounding worse.
Train around your brace. Accelerate the results.
Strength and mobility built to run alongside your brace rather than fight it. Upper thoracic work, postural rebuilding, and progressions you can do with the thing on.
Core-first training that closes the flare.
Ten weeks aimed at the cause rather than the look: diaphragm control, how you brace the cage, and the movement patterns that keep the ribs down once they come down.
Training fixes the shape. Food builds the size. The complete gaining system for the naturally skinny pectus frame.
Put on weight even when you have no appetite.
Most of us with pectus are naturally skinny, and a hollow chest reads far worse on a thin frame. This is the full nutrition system for putting on real weight: the calorie maths, the blender protocol, and the low-appetite playbook that makes eating enough physically possible.
The complete non-surgical system for pectus excavatum - every method that works, in one 1,127-page book.
Everything I know about fixing a sunken chest, in one book.
1,127 pages covering vacuum bell therapy, bracing, exercise, posture, flared ribs, nutrition and the parts nobody writes about. It is what I used on my own chest, in the order I would do it again.
Focused, practical guides for braces and the vacuum bell - the specifics that make everything work.
The protocol the box it came in does not include.
Suction levels, how long to sit in it, when to progress, and what to change when the chest stops moving. Drawn from eleven years of watching where bell users get stuck.
How to wear a brace so it actually corrects.
Fitting, wear schedules, measurement tracking, and the skin care nobody mentions until you have a sore. Plus the exercises that compound what the brace is doing.
Pressure is easy. Knowing where and how long is not.
Wear schedules, how posture folds into it, measurement checkpoints, and the exercises that work with the compression instead of against it.
Walk into the operating room as prepared as possible, so you recover faster and protect the result.
Go into the Nuss procedure as strong as possible.
The breathing, posture, strength and nutrition prehab that gets you into the operating room as fit as possible, so you recover faster and protect the result.
Prepare for carinatum repair the right way.
The ribs-down posture, breathing and conditioning prehab that readies you for surgery and helps the flattened chest hold afterward.
Build breathing control before costal-margin surgery.
The diaphragm and ribs-down core control to build before a rib flare or pectus repair - the prep that makes recovery smoother and the result stick.
Protect your repair and recover safely after the bar.
The breathing, posture and progressive-strengthening plan that protects your repair, speeds recovery and keeps the result - safe around the bar.
Lock in the correction after carinatum repair.
Posture, breathing and strengthening progressions that protect the correction and rebuild the chest wall after surgery.
Rebuild rib control once you have healed.
The diaphragm, core and posture program that locks in rib position and rebuilds control once you have healed from a procedure.
The psychological weight of a visible chest condition is real - here's the science-backed way to handle it.
The part of this nobody wants to talk about.
A visible chest condition does something to your head, and the research on that is better than most people realise. Body image science, CBT tools, an exposure ladder for the stuff you avoid, a daily practice, and a four-week plan.
The whole non-surgical plan for each condition: the method, the research behind it, and what to actually do. I don't charge for these. Take yours and start tonight.
No filler. Just the research, the data, and what I've found actually works.
I run this alone. Every message comes directly to me. No AI, no team, no autoresponders.
I reply personally as soon as possible. No automated responses.
