Patient's question:
My child is now six years old and has pectus excavatum on the right side. Hello, can you take a look at the past treatment history and its effectiveness? How should the pectus excavatum be treated? What kind of help do you want: to be cured once and for all.Doctor's answer:
Generally, mild pigeon chest tends to gradually disappear with physical growth. Enhancing physical exercises, such as chest expansion activities, sit-ups, and eye lifts, two to three times a day, can accelerate the correction of the deformity.Generally speaking, mild pigeon chest does not significantly interfere with the heart and lungs, and the current surgical treatment for pigeon chest is not very satisfactory. Additionally, during the growth period of boys, strengthening the pectoral muscle exercises to make it full and strong can stabilize the protruding appearance of the pigeon chest. After puberty in girls, the growth and development of mammary glands also compensate for the chest bone deformity in appearance. Therefore, unless it is a severe deformity, surgical treatment is generally not recommended.