Nobody hands you a plan.

You get told two things. Live with it, or have surgery. Then you go home and start searching, and what you find is a forum post from 2011 or a hospital page describing a procedure that costs more than a car.

This is the thing that should have been handed to you at that appointment.

Who wrote it

I had pectus excavatum. Before I touched a bell I spent close to a year in the research, built one routine from it, and ran it on myself, filmed every morning. My chest went from a one-inch dent to nearly flat in four and a half months, where published cohorts take 12 to 24. That routine is this guide.

What is inside

Written while I was running the protocol on my own chest. In one session the bell lifts the breastbone into the position it should sit in; the brace keeps it there the other 23 hours; over months the cartilage learns that position as its own. This is how to run that, day by day.

• How the chest wall responds to sustained pressure, in plain language
• The full daily protocol: session length, pressure, frequency, what a session should actually feel like, the Internal Push, the Roller
• How to measure your own depth at home and track it month to month
• Sizing, so you do not end up with the wrong device
• The brace and skin routine between sessions
• What the published research shows, and where it stops. Including who it does not work for.

Why the assessment comes first

The guide on its own is information. The assessment makes it yours.

Eight questions, one measurement, one 30-second test. At the end you have:

• Your severity band, so you know which parts of the protocol apply to you
• Your device size, calculated from your own measurement
• A straight answer on whether non-surgical correction is realistic for your case
• The guide, yours the moment you finish the quiz
• Free guidance and support with the bell: a plan for your case and a check-in every two to three weeks, your size checked by a person before it ships, Day-1 setup. Tomas answers every time.

We do not publish the guide anywhere else. The assessment is the only way to get it, because a protocol you cannot apply to your own chest is worth nothing.

It might tell you no

Some chests are too rigid. Some cases belong with a surgeon. If your answers point that way, the assessment says so, and tells you what to ask a doctor instead.

Sixty seconds to find that out beats buying something that ends up in a drawer.