I fix pectus excavatum, carinatum and rib flare with custom plans and equipment built to your measurements. I fixed mine first, then 1,000 more.
Joined by 1,000+ people fixing their chest without surgery, since 2015
How I read your chest, set the pressure, and revise the plan every two weeks.
Most people who reach out have been at this for months. Not for lack of effort - for lack of structure. Every month on the wrong plan is a month you don't get back, and that's the part coaching fixes.
Effort was never the problem.
Nobody was correcting the aim.
Correction is mechanical. The right pressure, the right hours, the right exercise pairing, checked against your measurements every two weeks and changed the moment they say to.
Your chest wall is cartilage, not solid bone. Cartilage remodels under consistent, correctly-dosed pressure. That's the entire mechanism, and it's why surgery isn't the only option.
The full proof, measurements included, is further down the page ↓
Five reads, in this order. Each one narrows what the next has to decide, which is why equipment is the last question I answer, not the first.
All five happen from your intake form and photos, inside the first 48 hours. No diagnosis, no scan, no equipment needed to start.
I have pectus excavatum. Diagnosed at 15 and told what most people get told - wait and see, and if it gets worse, surgery. I wasn't taking that answer.
What existed then was scattered across clinical papers, forum threads and videos that contradicted each other. So I tested it on my own chest first: vacuum bell, breathing plan, exercise pairing, everything measured. Over months it changed, and the rib flare went with it.
I founded mrpectus in 2015 and have read over 1,000 cases since - excavatum, carinatum and rib flare, ages 13 to 52, every one by me. I also design and build the bells and braces, so the size and suction I give you come from hardware I've tested, not a size chart. I'm not a doctor: everything clinical here is reviewed by Prof. Dr. Mustafa Yüksel, MD. And I keep the list small on purpose. Attention is the product.
Medical reviewer
Prof. Dr. Mustafa Yüksel, MD is the medical reviewer for this site. He checks the clinical claims across it.
Thoracic surgeon, founder of the Chest Wall International Group
Nine things, built around your case from day one, not a template with your name on it.
1,127 pages on correcting pectus without surgery, and the book this whole method came out of. It sells for $97 on its own. Every coaching client gets it the day they start, at no extra cost, so the reasoning behind your plan is always there to read.
One rate: $199 a month, first month covered by the 30-day guarantee, cancel anytime. No call, no application - you start, and I get to work.
A real week once the plan is running. I'd rather you see the commitment now than discover it in week two.
Exact hours depend on your case and phase - a severe excavatum in month one looks nothing like a rib flare in month five. Your schedule gets built around the life you described at intake.
Coaching is not something done to you. I can build the right plan and still watch it fail if these four don't happen. Read them before you subscribe, not after.
Read them by rating, or by what people actually got out of it - the transformations, the honest reviews, and the messages that land in my inbox every week.
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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 bump 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 🇺🇸
bump is 0.5cm 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 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 1.5cm 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 bump 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, 1 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 bump 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, 1 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 bump 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 bump, then the bump 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”
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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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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.
Both work. They cost different things and they fail in different ways - here is the whole comparison, including the bill.
Every call on suction, hours and positioning stays yours.
I make those calls with you, every two weeks.
The honest exception: if your case is straightforward, you've had no failed attempts, and you're genuinely self-directed, the PE, PC or rib flare course gets you most of the way for $97. Start there, and if it stalls, coaching is still here.
Start coaching · $199/moCoaching is $199 a month with a 30-day money-back guarantee. You should know fast whether it's worth that for your case.
No call, no application, no waiting for a reply. You subscribe, I get to work.
30-day money-back guarantee. If coaching isn't what I described, one message inside the first 30 days gets you a full refund, no questions asked. After that, cancel any month.
Sold separately for $97. Yours free the moment you start - the complete reference on vacuum bell, bracing, posture, exercise, nutrition, breathing, and living with pectus.
Something I didn't cover? The chat comes straight to me. Ask anything about your case before you start.
A plan built for your chest, equipment fitted to your measurements, revisions every two weeks, and me a message away in the app the whole time. The first month is covered by the 30-day guarantee - the risk stays with me.
P.S. $199 a month is less than most people spend guessing - wrong equipment, wrong sizing, months on a plan that was never going to work. Worst case? One message inside the first 30 days and the month is refunded. And if a course fits your case better, I'll tell you that after your intake and refund you. - Mihail
