Patients’ ribs become high for the following common reasons: First, rickets: If the patient is an adolescent, it may be rickets, due to severe calcium deficiency and lack of vitamin D, which can lead to rickets, which can cause the rib cage to increase and form local deformities. Second, lung disease: elderly patients suffering from severe chronic bronchitis, emphysema, pulmonary heart disease, can also cause increased intrathoracic pressure, causing the local ribs to become high, while there will be coughing, coughing, chest pain and other clinical manifestations, through the lung CT, MRI examination, will find obvious lesions within the bronchi and lungs. Third, the fracture deformity healing: after the rib fracture, if not fixed in time, it will cause local deformity healing, which can also lead to the phenomenon of local rib heightening, taking X-ray film, will find the fracture deformity change. The rib heightening should be diagnosed and treated in time to get significant relief of clinical symptoms, and some patients are not easily treated, such as rib fracture deformity, which usually requires consideration of surgical treatment with greater damage.