Whether chest wall pain can be self-healed and the time of self-healing mainly depends on the cause of chest wall pain, which needs to be analyzed on a case-by-case basis. For chest wall pain caused by mild chest trauma, the patient does not have rib fracture, dyspnea, and only shows bruising of the chest wall, the pain can be basically relieved after 1 week of rest, and the bruising may take weeks or months to be absorbed. Patients should not perform massage, fire cupping and other operations during the acute stage, so as not to aggravate the condition. For the chest wall pain caused by costochondritis, it is a self-healing disease, but the time of self-healing is uncertain, and even need several years, the patient can take the local hot compresses, in order to tolerate the temperature is appropriate, and at the same time with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs, the pain can be gradually relieved in 5-7 days or so. If the pain is caused by pleurisy or chest wall tumor, patients need to actively treat the primary disease, and after the primary disease is controlled, the pain symptoms can be gradually relieved. Chest wall pain can be caused by a variety of reasons, after the symptoms, it is recommended that the patient go to the thoracic surgery department of the hospital in a timely manner to exclude chest wall tumors and other serious lesions.