Hi everyone, just wanted to share my experience with this condition.
We noticed a funnel chest in our child or as doctors refer to is a pectus excavatum. NHS thoracic surgeons will offer a consultation and scans but if no effect on the heart and lungs, then its considered a cosmetic issue.
Its the commonest birth defect so I was told about 300,000 in the UK walking around with it.
Fortunately, my child had no strain from the deformity on the heart and we decided to go private to help with cosmetic appearance. To try and conceal his defect he would take an abnormal posture and I was advised that they may have affected some of the major muscle groups.
Anyway, he had a non-surgical approach done by a clinic in North London, Hatfield, brilliant outcome. The surgeon also specializes in all minimal access approaches and we met other parents in the clinic's support groups. Surgery is reserved for over 18s and they never had the horrible bar to put in but a new plastic surgery procedure.