Brennan Rehabilitation Foundation

Every year in the u.s., an estimated 17,000 people survive a spinal cord injury. While treatment and follow-up care varies according to the serverity of the injury, medical expenses can easily exceed $500,000 in the first year alone. These staggering costs have inspired the Brennan Rehabilitation Foundation to create the socrates award, a lifetime cash grant to provide tetraplegics, individuals with paralysis caused by illness or injury that results in the partial or total loss of use of all four limbs and torso, with economic resources for therapy, equipment, prescriptions, and in-home care. Each year, recipients are selected to receive the socrates award for their efforts in working to achieve personal success while pursuing the daily grind of physical Rehabilitation and recovery.