lizi
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Topping, the body is a pretty fascinating little machine. It's constantly adjusting itself to what we're telling it to do- which is how much we move, how we move, or what we ask from it. Therefore if we put too much pressure on it, it tries to compensate and if we don't put much pressure on it at all, then it also compensates. We 'tell' it what we need by what we do in our day to day life. For instance if your weight has prevented you from moving around too much, then the body compensates for that by thinking you don't use those muscles very much and consequently they get smaller and weaker. This is how bone loss occurs, we lose bone mass if we don't use our bodies very much, which is why older women tend to get osteoporosis. Which is also why doctors tend not to cast broken bones much anymore. Because immobilizing the body causes more problems in the end than it fixes.
Your weight is creating the sway back problem, which you know. So your body is compensating for the extra stress and strain by trying to use some things (your back muscles) and then when they aren't up to the task- it uses other things (your joints and posture). The corset seems like an external solution to posture, but in the end it will actually undermine your posture by helping those back muscles not work to support you. Ladies in the old days used to end up having to have their corsets on in order to hold themselves up and move around because their bodies thought they didn't need those muscles anymore so they atrophied and got smaller and useless after not using them.
Think of it this way....a bandaid seems like a good solution for when you have a sore on your arm because it keeps the sore covered and stuff out of it like dirt. But...if you keep the bandaid on there, it actually hinders the healing process and the sore gets gross and weepy. A corset on your external abdomen seems effective because it enhances your posture, but having it on allows the muscles underneath to stop working even more which will make your sway back problem even worse.
When you go to the back class and to PT please give it all you have and be committed to work on your problem. You're still young, these types of problems as you get older may result in some very serious issues. I'm being trained in this field now and talk to and see people all the time that can't walk anymore or do anything for themselves because of these types of problems that got steadily worse until the point that their body isn't able to be fixed anymore. Do you seriously want to not be able to get around and take care of yourself? I'm not trying to be mean here at all, I wish I could take you with me when I'm with these patients so you could see how demeaning it is to have to be helped to the bathroom, and not be able to get a drink or food on your own. Ever.
I know you were losing weight some time ago and I sincerely hope you're sticking with that. It is my entirely non-professional opinion from seeing your posts here over time that losing weight would be the number one thing you could do to make big progress in a lot of areas while also preventing future problems. I've been in the position of being very overweight, I know how difficult it is to change that. I wouldn't even bother to bring it up except that I can objectively see that your weight has the most impact on the issues that you've brought to the table here over time. Hon, our bodies weren't meant to take that kind of strain and they break down under it. Strike out here for yourself and a brighter future, it's going to take hard work. No one who goes to PT gets anything out of it unless they put some effort into it. I'm pulling for you 
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