Carinatum is the most correctable pectus type, if your brace, breathing and training pull together. Nine modules that make them.
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Compression only holds if the hours, the angle and the training line up.
A brace applies pressure. Whether that pressure becomes correction depends on fit, schedule, breathing, exercise and posture working together. Here's where it usually breaks down.
Carinatum corrects better than any other pectus type.
Carinatum cartilage is flexible, and it remodels under steady compression - the same principle as braces on teeth. Get the fit, the hours and the breathing pulling together, and the ridge settles back.
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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 🇦🇺
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 🇮🇹
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 🇺🇸
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 🇬🇧
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 🇵🇱
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 🇳🇿
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 🇳🇱
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 🇳🇴
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 🇺🇸
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 🇬🇧
"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"
"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"
"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."
"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."
"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"
"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"
"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."
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
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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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“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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“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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“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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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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Case 01Case 02Case 03Case 04Case 05The 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.
From fitting to retention, each module builds on the last so your brace, body and habits finally pull together.
How the cartilaginous overgrowth develops, the three types (symmetric, asymmetric, mixed), and how to self-classify and measure your protrusion accurately.
The fitting principles that decide whether a brace corrects or just compresses, padding placement, pressure targeting, and a tightening progression that creates change without skin damage.
Not 'wear it as long as possible', the structured daily schedule, build-up protocol for new wearers, and the maintenance strategy that locks in gains.
Breathing sequences engineered to work alongside compression, diaphragm work, lateral rib expansion and intercostal mobility that compound correction.
The thoracic stiffness and anterior chest tightness PC creates, addressed systematically so the brace can do its job more effectively.
Which exercises compound brace correction, which counteract it, and the exact sequences that build supporting musculature the right way.
The skin-conditioning progression, padding adjustment protocol and troubleshooting system for pressure sores, rib discomfort and shoulder impingement.
How to measure protrusion accurately with calipers and photos, plus milestone checkpoints at weeks 4, 8, 16 and 24 that tell you if your pressure is calibrated right.
The retention protocol that maintains structural change, when to reduce wear hours, and how to test whether the correction is holding.
Nothing here is a lecture. Every lesson takes one mechanism, shows it on a real braced chest, and hands you the adjustment and the cue to check it against.
No forty-minute talks. Each lesson takes a single mechanism and shows why it matters for your ridge specifically.
Fitting, padding and pressure adjustments are shown on a carinatum chest in a brace, so you can see what correct looks like on anatomy like yours.
You finish each lesson with one change to make and one cue to check yourself against, so you know the pressure is where it should be.
Hours worn, pressure setting, or a photo. The next lesson starts from what you logged, not from where you hoped you were.
Read it on your phone while the brace is on. Everything is written as well as filmed, so you can skim a lesson once you already know it.
You fit, measure and build a schedule you can actually keep, so compliance is solved before motivation runs out.
Pre-order the courseSelf-classify your protrusion, take baseline measurements and photos, and dial in your brace fit and pressure zones.
Ease into a structured daily schedule with the build-up protocol, hours that stick, skin that holds, no guilt spiral.
Layer in compression-aware breathing and brace-compatible training so everything compounds instead of competing.
Re-measure against baseline, confirm your pressure is calibrated correctly, and progress the plan with confidence.
Plus the full exercise library, the complete reference list and the photo shot-list, and buyers get 15% off a custom compression brace.
Not feelings. Capabilities, each one with a way to check whether you actually have it.
Pressure on the ridge instead of the ribs, padding where the contact points actually sit, and a tightening progression that creates change without wrecking your skin.
Check yourselfYou can point to your two pressure zones and say why the padding sits where it does.
Structured hours by phase, a build-up plan if the brace is new, and a way back in after a bad week that does not involve guilt.
Check yourselfYou know this week's target hours, and what happens if you miss a day.
The drills that expand the ribs laterally under a brace, and the lifts that build the frame around the ridge instead of pushing it forward.
Check yourselfYou can name one exercise you dropped, and what you put in its place.
Caliper and photo checkpoints at weeks 4, 8, 16 and 24 that separate a stall caused by too little pressure from one caused by too few hours.
Check yourselfYou can look at a flat month and say which of the two it was.
I'm not writing this as a doctor looking at a scan. I had the sunken chest, the flared ribs, the shirt that stayed on at the pool, and nobody could tell me what actually works.
Years of consistent, non-surgical training made mine unnoticeable. Everything on this page exists because I needed it to exist ten years ago.
I tested all of it on my own body first, then refined it every time someone hit a wall I had not planned for.
Featured in Healthline · Level 5 DUKE Institute Certified Personal Trainer (ISSA) · Specialised in pectus excavatum, carinatum and rib flare.
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Thoracic surgeon, founder of the Chest Wall International Group
Not in dollars. In time. Side by side, honestly.
No waiting on a reply, no onboarding call, nothing to install.
The complete protocol, written by someone who wore the brace himself. Pay once, keep it for life, and get every update I make to it.
Try the whole thing for 30 days. Use it, and if it isn't what was described, message me for a full refund, no questions asked. The risk stays with me, not you.
The protocol applies to any anterior compression brace, custom orthotist-fitted or off-the-shelf. The fitting and pressure-zone principles in Module 02 are device-agnostic. If you don’t have a brace yet, the course covers how to evaluate your options.
Consistent hours in the right pressure range beat maximum hours at the wrong setting. The wear schedule is structured around 8–16 hours depending on phase, not the impractical 'as long as possible' advice you've probably already heard.
Usually it comes down to pressure calibration (too little), wear schedule (too inconsistent), or posture compensation masking real movement. Module 08’s measurement system tells you exactly which one is your issue.
Yes, it complements physio well. The course gives you the self-directed protocol; physio adds hands-on assessment. The measurement system gives them concrete data to work from.
Very severe adult cases with significant cartilage calcification may respond less to compression. The severity self-assessment in Module 01 helps you understand where you are and whether bracing is your primary path or a supplement.
With consistent hours in the right pressure range, most people see the first visible flattening within 2–4 months, teens often faster, adults slower. The measurement protocol picks up change in the numbers before your eyes believe it in the mirror.
Adult cartilage is stiffer, so correction takes longer and severe calcified cases respond less, the course is honest about that. But adults do improve with consistent bracing plus the training and posture work, and the assessment module maps a realistic timeline for your age.
Both. Bracing does the structural work; the training and breathing modules reshape the frame around it (chest, posture, ribcage mechanics) so the corrected shape is supported by muscle, not just held by compression.
Around 20–30 minutes of active work most days, breathing, mobility and training. Brace wear itself happens passively while you live your life; the course structures the hours so they cost you as little as possible.
Yes. Asymmetric presentations are common, and the assessment module identifies your pattern so the pressure placement and exercise emphasis adapt to it instead of treating your chest as symmetrical when it isn’t.
On 31 Aug 2026. I'm still filming, and you're pre-ordering — that's why it's $97 instead of $197. On the day it's finished, the link lands in your inbox automatically. If the date ever moves I'll email you before it does, and you can take a refund instead of waiting. Lifetime access and free updates once it's yours.
Work through the modules first. If the course isn't what I said it was, email me any time in the first 30 days and I'll refund the lot.
Take the free 1-minute assessment and get a straight answer for your condition and severity.
Take the assessment →The chat bubble in the corner reaches me directly, ask anything about your case before you decide.
Try the whole thing. If it isn't right for your chest, every dollar comes back.
Start risk-free →Stop white-knuckling the hours and hoping. Turn the compression you are already under into measurable, lasting correction, for less than one orthotist visit.
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P.S. If you've read this far, part of you has already decided. The only thing you can lose by trying is the version of next year where nothing changed. - Mihail
