Mild low-grade funnel chest patients can be self-healed through enhanced nutrition and physical exercise, but moderate to severe funnel chest patients are difficult to self-heal and need to be treated through surgery.
Funnel chest is usually caused by congenital developmental deformity, the sternum is sunken inward, and the adjacent rib cartilage is also sunken with it, which looks like a funnel, which will affect the development and height, and also compresses the chest, which affects the development of lungs and heart.
After increasing nutrition, stretching, swimming and running, most of the mildly affected children can get better on their own as they grow older, but most of the patients can not be cured by themselves, and need to undergo surgical treatment to correct the deformity, and the mainstream surgery is minimally invasive funnel chest correction, and the open surgery includes sternum lifting and sternum flipping surgery.
Patients with funnel chest need to consult a doctor in time, under the guidance of the doctor for examination and treatment, not blindly waiting for self-cure.