Children with chicken chest not only affects the cardiopulmonary function, reduce the resistance of the respiratory organs, but also affect the child's physical beauty, and therefore a psychological burden on the child, and even become the child's lifelong pain.
The causes of this deformity
1 , in the fetal or infant period, the development of the sternum and vertebrae, ribs, unbalanced, resulting in deformity of the thorax.
2, after the birth of infants do not get enough nutrition, suffering from certain malnutritional diseases, such as pediatric rickets, can affect the development of the sternum and so on for a long time, resulting in thoracic deformity.
3, secondary to diseases in the chest. Such as some congenital heart disease, the enlarged heart compresses the chest wall, forming chicken chest deformity.
If the degree of chicken chest is mild, it can usually disappear naturally with age; in more severe cases, it will be difficult to cure for the rest of one's life.
Therefore, parents should take their children to the hospital and ask the doctor to diagnose the cause of the disease and then prescribe the right medicine. At the same time, the child should be encouraged to do some help to expand the thorax, enhance the respiratory function of the corrective exercise.
1, breathing up and down drill, two feet and shoulder-width stand, body relaxation, slightly closed eyes, two arms gently forward flat up to the top of the head, while inhaling, stop for a while, the two arms naturally fall, accompanied by a deep exhalation, a number of times a day, each time 10 minutes.
2, push-ups or dumbbells to do two-armed front raise exercise 3 to 4 times a day, 10 minutes each time.
3, single and double bar turning tendon head, early in the morning on an empty stomach, but not too strenuous.
4, jogging helps to enhance visceral activity, expanding the amount of respiration, and improve thoracic dysplasia.