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Pectus Deformity FAQs: What outcomes can pectus patients expect from bracing treatment?

Worried about your chest shape? Pectus excavatum, where the breast bone is pushed abnormally inward, or ‘sunken chest’ affects approximately one in 300 people in the UK. Pectus carinatum, sometimes referred to as ‘pigeon chest’ is where the breastbone is pushed outward affects around one in 1,000 people. At the London Orthotic Consultancy, we offer a combination of corrective bracing to treat pectus deformity (pectus carinatum and pectus excavatum) with specialist physiotherapy, breathing and exercise programmes to achieve pectus correction. Patients often ask our specialist pectus clinicians common questions about treatment and which lifestyle changes they can make in order for bracing to be its most successful. For some patients, it’s learning what life will be like while wearing a chest brace and if it will infringe upon their day-to-day lifestyle. Hopefully this video series which discusses frequently asked questions about pectus deformity treatment, with London Orthotic Consultancy director and pectus specialist, Sam Walmsley will provide a source of information and comfort for people considering bracing treatment as an alternative to surgery. Find out more about pectus carinatum (where the breastbone is pushed out): https://www.londonorthotics.co.uk/pec... And more about pectus excavatum (where the breastbone is dented inwards): https://www.londonorthotics.co.uk/pec... Read one of our pectus carinatum testimonials and case studies: https://www.londonorthotics.co.uk/new... And for more general information on how chest bracing works: https://www.londonorthotics.co.uk/pec... In this video: Q: What is the most important treatment outcome for your Pectus patients? Sam: So that is big one really for us because when someone comes in to see us often one of the problem is that they are not really confident in themselves. They are withdrawing from football because their mates have noticed their problem when they take the shirt off. They are not swimming. They are not going to the beach or the leaving a T- shirt on when on the beach. Parents begin to notice that they are beginning to kind of acknowledge that, so that is when we like to intervene and so self-esteem is low. So we have sent out a survey to all of our patients that have been through treatment and we got exactly 72 results. There were exactly 72 results. When we looked at the results, the overwhelming positive result that we got was self-esteem. We have asked patients before treatment how was your self-esteem and after treatment and in every category; be it the pectus carinatums or excavatums, in the asymmetrical patients, we have seen improvements in self-esteem which I think is a real positive and a very important aspect of our treatment. We are happy with that because at the end of day treatment is subjective. Physiologically there is no real problem with having a pectus issue, but in actual …. it comes down to confidence and self-esteem. The treatment is a lovely treatment for a clinician to do. You can take a young person who is not too happy about their self-esteem. They come in with rounded shoulders, not really wanting to look or make eye contact with you and at the end of it you know. I remember my first patient who kind of graduated out of treatment if you like, he walked out of the clinic without a shirt on, that’s fine but it was November! So you know there can be huge improvements in self-confidence and self-esteem and it is a lovely thing for clinicians to be able to see that.