I was 15 when I first understood what I had. I knew my chest was different: the dip, the way it changed in certain light, the things I quietly stopped doing because of it. But I didn't have a name for it until a doctor looked at me and said "pectus excavatum" like it was nothing.
Before any of it. The photos I spent years making sure nobody took.
The advice was wait and see, and if it gets worse, surgery. I couldn't accept that. I started researching obsessively: forums, clinical papers, anything I could find on non-surgical correction. What I found was scattered, mostly anecdotal and almost always incomplete.
So I bought a vacuum bell. I put together a breathing and exercise plan from a dozen unconnected sources, and I measured everything. Over the next three years my chest changed, really and visibly. The dip didn't disappear completely. But the structure of both the sunken chest and the rib flare that came with it changed in a way that mattered.
People had devices, but not plans. They had information, but not structure.
I put the site up in 2015 to build the thing I had needed at 15. It launched under the name Pectus Excavatum Fix, which is exactly as subtle as it sounds, and became mrpectus later. Along the way I qualified as a Level 5 DUKE Institute Certified Personal Trainer, took a design degree so I could build and illustrate all of it myself, and wrote Breathe Deeper, 1,127 pages of research and practical plans. Eleven years later, mrpectus has worked with more than 1,000 people with pectus excavatum, carinatum and rib flare.
I am not a doctor and I do not claim to be. I went through this myself, built a structured approach from the evidence, and refined it over a thousand cases. Everything here is built on that.
