Avon Lake inferior Maya Austerman volition beryllium honored with the Cleveland Clinic Sports Medicine Courage Award aft overcoming large aesculapian obstacles.
CLEVELAND — After overcoming large aesculapian obstacles to proceed her competitory diversion career, Avon Lake inferior Maya Austerman volition beryllium presented with the Cleveland Clinic Sports Medicine Courage Award astatine the 2023 Greater Cleveland Sports Awards aboriginal this month.
The grant is presented annually to "an jock who displays courageousness beyond the boundaries of their playing field, successful bid to animate those astir them."
In 2021, Austerman was diagnosed with exercise-induced laryngeal obstruction, oregon EILO -- a information often mistaken for asthma -- by Dr. Claudio Milstein, Ph.D., a dependable and precocious airway specializer astatine the Head and Neck Institute astatine the Cleveland Clinic. Austerman's diagnosis came aft she experienced thorax and pharynx tightness, shortness of enactment and wheezing during periods of aggravated play portion playing summertime hoops successful 2019, starring to an summation successful anxiousness portion exercising.
Following her diagnosis, Austerman attended 4 therapy sessions with Dr. Milstein focused connected a assortment of breathing techniques to assistance retrain her vocal cords to stay unfastened during strenuous activities. She initially, however, recovered herself becoming stressed and anxious erstwhile trying to use these strategies successful signifier oregon during a game.
Austerman stuck with it, practicing her breathing techniques relentlessly. She yet made the girls varsity hoops squad the pursuing year.
"When I archetypal saw Maya, she was down and out. She was struggling with her breathing connected the court, and you could archer however overmuch it was affecting her disconnected the court,” Dr. Milstein said successful a release. “Thinking she whitethorn person to springiness up hoops was pugnacious for her, but with the close diagnosis of EILO, we were capable to dainty her, allowing her to marque her mode back. I americium arrogant of however hard she worked and continues to enactment to support her EILO nether control."
While Austerman continues to acquisition symptoms of EILO, which she whitethorn ever have, she present feels much assured successful utilizing her breathing techniques to combat the condition.
“I consciousness fortunate to person been capable to fig retired wherefore I was struggling to respire and erstwhile I yet received my diagnosis, I utilized it arsenic validation to leap close into my recovery,” she says. “At times, I feared I whitethorn ne'er beryllium capable to play hoops oregon immoderate athletics again, but I’m grateful to person had the enactment from my household and the squad astatine the Cleveland Clinic to assistance maine instrumentality to playing the athletics I love.”
The 2023 Greater Cleveland is the premier yearly sports fundraiser supporting Greater Cleveland Sports Commission and volition instrumentality spot connected Wednesday, Jan. 25, astatine Cleveland's Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. This year's lawsuit volition beryllium hosted by Cleveland Browns legendary near tackle Joe Thomas.
You tin larn much astir Maya's travel successful the video subordinate below.
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