Stuck Sternum - Help!

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#1

Hi everyone - I’m a 27 yo male and I’ve recently found out that I have a stuck sternum (or at least that’s the term being used). I’ve suffered from some pretty horrible symptoms for the last 3 years (primarily shortness of breath or inability to take deep breaths which makes exercise almost impossible although I have been doing by best, and some GERD symptoms as well) and no solution was found through modern medicine, but both a osteopath and chiropractor I have gone to have said I have a stuck sternum.

I’m getting some manipulation done to try to free it, but I was wondering if anyone had any experience with a similar situation. From what I’m told it’s not very common so this may be a shot in the dark, but I’ve started practicing yoga to the best of my ability with my condition over the past 5-6 months and it has helped a lot.

Thanks!

#2

Joey,

Can you outline your history a bit and perhaps focus on any traumas that have caused grief in your life?

gordon

#3

[QUOTE=joeya;80593]Hi everyone - I’m a 27 yo male and I’ve recently found out that I have a stuck sternum (or at least that’s the term being used). I’ve suffered from some pretty horrible symptoms for the last 3 years (primarily shortness of breath or inability to take deep breaths which makes exercise almost impossible although I have been doing by best, and some GERD symptoms as well) and no solution was found through modern medicine, but both a osteopath and chiropractor I have gone to have said I have a stuck sternum.

I’m getting some manipulation done to try to free it, but I was wondering if anyone had any experience with a similar situation. From what I’m told it’s not very common so this may be a shot in the dark, but I’ve started practicing yoga to the best of my ability with my condition over the past 5-6 months and it has helped a lot.

Thanks![/QUOTE]

well…have you done any diagnostic procedures? or they just looked at your face and said :“looks like stuck sternum…”

it might be muscular skeletal, respiratory, cardiovascular nature…u must figure out first whats causing it… (gerd might exist independently)