Question about my chest and body--16 yr old guy?!
Question: I lift weights and i want to gain as much muscle as I can.
Well one day when i was in the locker room, sum kids told me i have a hole in my chest. ( a year before some kid told me i have something in the middle of my chest but I didn't pay attention to it) I noticed it and i did some research on what it was. A hole in the chest is pectus excavatum. I notcied the pics of pectus excavatum where a deep hole unlike mine which is not deep.
Concidentally i had a physical with my doctor and they said i have mild pectus ecavatum, but I dont think i have it. Maybe it is just the way my skeleton is and it just looks like i have mild pectus excavatum.
I also noticed one side of my chest is higher than the other, I can feel the bone difference plus the right side looks bigger. It also looks like my chest gradually curves in rather than stay out. Is this normal or do I have a chest deformity.
I also have mild scoliosis could that have to do with this?
I'm rlly concrned wit how i look
Answers: I lift weights and i want to gain as much muscle as I can.
Well one day when i was in the locker room, sum kids told me i have a hole in my chest. ( a year before some kid told me i have something in the middle of my chest but I didn't pay attention to it) I noticed it and i did some research on what it was. A hole in the chest is pectus excavatum. I notcied the pics of pectus excavatum where a deep hole unlike mine which is not deep.
Concidentally i had a physical with my doctor and they said i have mild pectus ecavatum, but I dont think i have it. Maybe it is just the way my skeleton is and it just looks like i have mild pectus excavatum.
I also noticed one side of my chest is higher than the other, I can feel the bone difference plus the right side looks bigger. It also looks like my chest gradually curves in rather than stay out. Is this normal or do I have a chest deformity.
I also have mild scoliosis could that have to do with this?
I'm rlly concrned wit how i look
Scoliosis can move your bones around so that may be part of the problem. If you have a mild case, there's not a lot, besides exercises, to do about it. Your family doctor or scoliosis specialist can recommend things that are appropritate for your case, whatever severity your curve is.
A mild pectus excavatum probably doesn't look like the picture you saw. Reference pictures are typically moderate-to-major cases because people taking the pictures want to make sure you see what the problem looks like. So its still possible that you really do have the mild case that your doctor mentioned. Ask your family doctor what can be done about it.
If you are really concerned, I guess you should ask your family doctor send you to specialist with x-ray, ultra sound, chest scan, etc...
It will help you mentally and physically.
You might be working or 'stabilizing' one side of your body harder than the other when you are lifting. Instead of regular chest press, try dumbell presses--do NOT have one weight heavier than the other to compensate, use the same weight on both sides and it should even out eventually.
If you lift weights properly, I believe that is one of the absolute BEST things for scoliosis. I have no idea about the hole in your chest, but as long as the dr says it's ok, keep lifting.