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  LSVT Helps Parkinson's Patients Be Heard

  Many Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients think they are being heard clearly when they speak, but in reality, they can hardly be heard at all. During an audio taped speech and voice assessment session, they are surprised to learn that they are speaking so softly. The inability of people with PD ...

  • Wednesday, February 18th, 2004
  • Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas

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  Urinary Incontinence: No Laughing Matter

  Anyone who has suffered from urinary incontinence knows that just laughing can bring on the embarrassing symptom: urine leakage. Primarily a female condition, it is a huge problem with one study suggesting that more than 35 percent of women will experience some type of incontinence in their ...

  • Monday, December 15th, 2003
  • Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas

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  Expanded Orthopedic Center Planned for Scripps Encinitas Campus

  Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas announced today that San Dieguito Orthopedic Medical Center will open a comprehensive orthopedic center on the hospital’s campus. The new facility, which is scheduled to open in early Fall 2004, will be located in a fully-renovated 20,000 sq. ft. medical ...

  • Monday, December 8th, 2003
  • Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas

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  Encinitas Rehab Teaches Surfing Accident Victim How to Live Again

  In March of 2000, 45-year-old Bob Dancey was knocked off his board in shallow water while surfing at a Carlsbad beach. His head hit the ground and snapped backward, pinching his vertebrae. “I floated around in the water for a while completely conscious while my arms and legs just flopped ...

  • Monday, October 20th, 2003
  • Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas

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  Scripps to Purchase Four-Acre Property Next to Scripps Encinitas

  Scripps Health has agreed to purchase a 4.19-acre property at the northeast corner of Santa Fe Drive and Devonshire from St. Mark Lutheran Church, adjacent to Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas. “Scripps Health is very pleased to have the opportunity to purchase this site so that we can ...

  • Wednesday, September 3rd, 2003
  • Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas

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  Scripps Encinitas Spine Program Offers Latest Treatment Advances

  An estimated eight of ten adults will experience back or neck pain at some time in their life. As people age, they are more likely to develop debilitating pain from spinal injury or degenerative change. The magnitude and impact of this problem is continuing to rise as the baby-boom generation ...

  • Friday, August 1st, 2003
  • Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas

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  Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas Welcomes New Level II Nursery

  A decade ago, shortly after the opening in 1993 of the Scripps Encinitas Birth Pavilion, discussions began on the need for a Level II nursery in the new space. From the very beginning, hospital staff and physicians worked together in hope that one day a Level II nursery would be possible. Today, ...

  • Thursday, May 8th, 2003
  • Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas

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  New Hope for Stroke Patients at Scripps Encinitas

  Many stroke survivors have given up hope of ever using a limb that has been paralyzed by a stroke. Now at Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas a new therapy called constrained induced therapy (CIT) is having great success with patients. Scripps Encinitas is the only hospital in North County to have ...

  • Tuesday, February 18th, 2003
  • Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas

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  Brain Surgery at Scripps Encinitas Saves Composer's Life

  Although composer Paul Warner of Encinitas considers himself one of the founders of “healing music,” he could not heal himself. Emergency surgery was his only option when he was recently brought to Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas—almost comatose from a ruptured brain ...

  • Monday, January 6th, 2003
  • Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas