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.

Biochemical Reasons to Development of PE

Biochemical base theory: Is there a possibility that biochemical reasons can cause pectus excavatum?

I made a post here on my blog about nutrition and PE and I have put a warning flag on especially wheat and the chemical substances that it contains as a possible biochemical reason to cause/worsen pectus excavatum or possibly make the recovery impossible. My whole blog have until now been mostly about the mechanical reasons. As I have already mentioned earlier last year on my blog; technical reasons causes the muscles in the upper back to malfunction (the blood flow decreases). When this happens, it will cause the upper back to be shortened. If it wasn’t for that reason (the shortening) it would be impossible to develop severe cases of the condition and it would also be a lot easier to recover from it.

The most difficult part of the recovery is not the sternum itself. The most difficult part is to stretch/make the muscles longer in the upper back. That is, as earlier mentioned, a prerequisite for the sternum to be able to pop out.

The following phrase is one of the most important phrases on my blog:

Anything that can make the muscles in the upper back to get them into a spastic condition can without doubt cause pectus excavatum to develop. When the muscles is getting shorter because of spasm, they will cause a free fall of the ribcage and make an already high mobility to become even more mobile, the same way it happens because of mechanical reasons. The connective tissue and the spine will be put under heavy muscular force vertically. The big question will be; can they withstand the force? Genetics will determine! If they can’t the ribs in the upper back will drag the sternum inwards the same way as described in other posts on my blog.

After this statement is made it also opens up for the possibility that pectus excavatum can be caused and/or worsened by chemical substances produced by the body itself during heavy loads of psychological stress. Many substances produced under such circumstances can cause muscular tension.

To understand why tension in those muscles can be so devastating, it is also important to know in what direction the muscle fibers are aligned.

Many of them are aligned in a way that will cause a vertical force during a spastic condition. This part of the body, the upper back, is ONE OF THE MOST NERVE RICH PARTS OF THE BODY and will therefore be more vulnerable for chemical substances.

I believe that biochemical factors and/or psychologic stress, in some cases, can be the last drop that makes the cup run over.

Development of PE after Nuss Surgery/Procedure

Not even a Nuss-operation guarantees that pectus excavatum does not come back. Why?

 
The fact that PE in some cases starts to develop once again after surgery fits very well in to my theory that development of pectus excavatum is caused mainly by outer forces. If PE would have been what can be classified as a deformation that was PURE genetically, the chances for it to relapse after a Nuss-procedure would be out of the question if you think about it logically.

My theory says; it is both environmental and genetic factors that causes it to exist.

Why is it out of the question?

“When the metal bar is removed the diaphragm has a normal environment to work in and it can produce a strong (normal) force under the sternum that makes it impossible to cause the sternum to fall back” (it would have been that way if PE was PURE genetically).

If one continue to do what caused PE to exist in the first place it may affect the diaphragm once again to make it malfunction. As long as the metal-bar is in the body it can help to withstand those outer forces but once removed, the body is “on its own” again.

That means that my theory (what I did to improve it 90%) can make it impossible for PE to develop once again after a Nuss-surgery (if it is followed 100%).

I also believe that people that plans to undergo surgery will benefit from my theory because; the more you can fix it yourself, the less complicated the procedure to fix it surgically will (most likely) be. I have read on many places on the internet (ask your surgeon if you plan to do it) that surgery becomes more risky with severity of the condition.