Foot Recovery Update Before/After

During my research about PE I also found out that flat feet are linked to the condition and after strictly using only professional barefoot shoes (zero drop) my feet have recovered in an almost miraculous way. Today my “ex-torture feet” are healthy and almost completely healed, no pain at all. My philosophy is to not use any support, which I believe makes the muscles in the feet to work in a natural way. The more I walk the more healthy my feet gets. When I put my feet on the ground the arches falls a little down but that is the type of feet I have. Now compared to then; they are not extremely flattened and deformed anymore.

It is tree months between the two pictures. The first one was uploaded here on my blog after some progress in December 2013.

This proves to me that ordinary shoes can cause a lot of damage to the feet.

 

 

Note: During the healing process it may occur some pain when they are being transformed to normal. I recommend to strictly not running during the healing process.    

Nuss-procedure vs “Do-it-yourself-procedure”

The Nuss-procedure forces the sternum out with a metal-bar and because of that also forces the rest of the upper body into a correct position.

The Do-it-yourself-procedure, developed by me (B. RL Åkerström) forces the surroundings of the sternum (the rest of the upper body) by natural ergonomics, towards a correct position and as a consequence of that forces the sternum towards a correct position.

People whom have undergone the Nuss-surgery (I have followed forums) in general complains about pain in the upper back. The reason is of course the fact that the ribs that are attached to the sternum also are attached to the shortened kyphotic upper back. The lift of the sternum will cause an enormous stretching in the upper back when the ribs moves forwards together with the sternum.

A little pain may occur during the Do-it-yourself-procedure as well (in the upper back) at some points in time. From my experience; the pain is very mild (like doing weight lifting). You will slowly move the sternum and the rest of the body towards a correct position (like moving teeth). From my experience the recovery process is very fast in the beginning if it is followed 100%, and it will be more and more slow the closer to full correction one gets. My record for now is:  A little more than 90% corrected.

The illustration shows that the "Do-it-yourself-procedure” is a non-surgical “mirror-image-effect” of the Nuss-surgery.

Nuss

1.       A force under the sternum push it out (a metal-bar).

2.       The ribs moves in the direction of the lifted sternum.

3.       The spine straightens.

Yourself

1.       The spine straightens because of natural ergonomics.

2.       The ribs are pushed in the direction of the sternum because

the spine straightens.

3.       The sternum is forced out by the ribs with help from the

                “natural metal-bar” the diaphragm.

For Me a Huge Improvement (flexing photo)

I have gained weight both muscles and fat. I think the total dip is around 1.9 cm (fat and muscles 1.5+sternum0.4). Once it was around two inch without muscles and fat included, so this is for me "almost completely out".

I have found it especially important to be up on the feet to keep the sternum in this position. If I sit down too much, it sinks back around 5 mm quite fast.

I think that my modified dumbbell pullovers have made a lot to the positive but it is very important to not do them too much, as all form of training. I have lately made some test to verify my shoe-theory and it has yet another time been confirmed that it is impossible for me to lift the heel. The sternum sinks in extremely fast because of the S-shaping posture they produces which is described in detail on my blog. 

After my healing process of my feet I can’t use shoes with heels for yet another reason. I immediately get pain and it is clearly visible that they get deformed. Once moving back to nature, there is no reason to look back.

As always: Zero drop/barefoot shoes is a must (the natural way). If Ignored=Mission Failed with the higest degree of certainty possible.