Where this started
The honest, unedited version - no origin story polish.
I was 16 when I first understood what I had. I knew something was different about my chest - the dip, the way it changed under certain light, the things I 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.
The recommendation was wait and see. If it gets worse, surgery. That answer wasn't acceptable to me. I started researching obsessively - forums, clinical papers, anything I could find on non-surgical correction. This was 2014. The information that existed was fragmented, mostly anecdotal, and almost always incomplete.
I bought a vacuum bell. I started a breathing and exercise protocol I'd assembled from disparate sources. I measured everything. Over 18 months, I produced measurable, visible correction - not complete elimination of the depression, but a meaningful structural change that changed how I felt in my own body.
People had devices, but not protocols. They had information, but not structure.
mrpectus started as an attempt to build what I'd needed. A decade later, it's worked with over 1,000 people navigating pectus excavatum, carinatum, and rib flare - from first diagnosis to measurable correction.
I'm not a doctor. I don't claim to be. I'm someone who navigated this from the inside, built a structured approach from the evidence, and refined it across a thousand cases. That's what this is built on.
