Does Pectus Excavatum Cause Chest Pain? (Here's My Experience...)

Hey, what's up? This is Brian Moncada and in this video I want to talk about pectus excavatum and chest pain. If you were someone who was born with pectus excavatum, then chances are you experience maybe a little bit of chest pain, depending on how severe your indent is. For me, I have a pretty deep indent in my chest and my heart is a little bit compressed because of it. But I just hiked up this beautiful mountain here in Phoenix, Arizona. I'll show you guys the view also wrap it around real quick. And I was perfectly fine. You know, I do active stuff like this almost every single day. I work out three or four times a week. I hike up a mountain like this at least once every two weeks and I train MMA every once in a while and do hot yoga at least once a week. And the reason why I share all this with you is because I'm someone that was born with severe pectus. You know, I have a pretty decent looking body now. After a few years of training properly, I got some muscle on me, but I do experience chest pain and that's simply because my bone structure of the way my pectus is formed is just compressing my heart a little bit more than most people that have mild pectus. Right. So if your pectus isn't as deep as mine, but you're still experiencing chest pain, first and foremost, go get it checked out by a specialist. I am not a doctor. I am just a young 25 year old who obsesses over health, fitness, nutrition and personal development as who's been doing it in his own life and sharing his experiences with you along this journey through YouTube. So I can only recommend what works for me and what I've personally experienced and what I've tested myself and share it with you to see if it'll work for you. So basically, go get it checked out if you have chest pain. But if you're someone that has chest pain and you're looking for ways to maybe alleviate that chest pain, what I do for me is I make sure to roll out my pecs, my shoulders, my traps, and I have a few videos on this on how to do it with the foam roller. You can click the video right over here on the card. I'll put it there to help relieve the stress in your neck, the tension in your upper back, so you can breathe better. You know your heart's not as compressed and your breathing comes from your diaphragm, which is your stomach, not upper chest. Right. And so you can check that video out. I also made a video about breathing exercises for pectus excavating, which you can watch right here as well. And I'll link it at the end of this video. But the main point I want you guys to know is that if you're someone that has pectus excavatum and you experience some sort of chest pain, this is completely normal. But make sure it's not doing damage to you in a more harmful way long term. So I would go get out, go get checked out by a specialist in your local area for pectus and then definitely check out the videos I'll put right here to help you breathe better, especially if you have pectus because you got to learn how to breathe with your diaphragm. And I made a video on this that you can watch. And other than that, I just wanted to share this amazing moment with you here from the beautiful Piestewa Peak Mountain here in Phoenix, Arizona. Hope you guys are having an amazing time wherever you are in the world. I hope you and your family are safe. Hope you guys are taking it easy. And until all this craziness is over, I'll be here making videos for you, hopefully dropping a video every single day so we can expect some entertainment from your boy, Brian Montada. Anyways, I'm out. Peace, boys.