Dr. Andrew DeGruccio
Orthopedic Surgery
Louisville, KY
31 years experience male
Locations
Orthopedic & Sports Specialists of Louisville, PSC
Louisville, KY
My office hours
Thursday: 9:00am - 5:00pm
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Andrew DeGruccio is a board certified orthopedic surgeon practicing since 1997. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California Medical School and did his orthopedic training at the University of Louisville. He earned his undergraduate degrees in Kinesiology and Psychobiology from UCLA. He has been active as a player and coach in Louisville area soccer leagues for over 15 years and has played on a USTA tennis team. He has also become a white water kayaker. His active participation in sports combined with his educational background have made sports medicine a special interest in his orthopedic practice. With an appointment as a Clinical Instructor in the University of Louisville, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, he places special emphasis on educating his patients, as well as overseeing their comprehensive orthopedic care.
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Doctors may have more than one area of specialty interest. Board certification in a specialty area means the doctor has completed formal training and has practice experience in that specialty, and has passed the certification examination from the corresponding accredited medical specialty board.
Orthopedic Surgery
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A 24-year-old member asked:
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Orthopedic Surgery 31 years experience
Consult Orthopedics: This sounds like a complicated orthopedic surgery problem. You should consult an orthopedic surgeon. The swelling and symptoms you describe are cer... Read More
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A 24-year-old female asked:
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Magnesium: Magnesium supplementation has been shown to reduce frequency and severity of attacks.
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A 18-year-old member asked:
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Knee pad: Unfortunately, there is no specific brace for osgood-schlatter's disease. The pain is worsened with direct contact to the swollen front, top of the s... Read More
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A 31-year-old male asked:
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Vit. D deficiency: Vitamin d deficiency has become more common recently, resulting in easy fracturing. The causes of vitamin d deficiency include poor dietary intake an... Read More
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A 35-year-old member asked:
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Yes: If you have exhausted all nonoperative options, including anti-inflammatory meds, therapy, activity modifications, and injections either steroid or to... Read More
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A 32-year-old member asked:
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Better: A hip replacement often improves range of motion. Sometimes too much motion, and dislocation becomes a risk. Metal on plastic surfaces don't last fo... Read More
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A 33-year-old member asked:
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Depends: Stiffness should be expected and limited hand and wrist motion may limit driving. Once the stiffness is worked out, then driving can be resumed. Wit... Read More
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A 46-year-old member asked:
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Yes: Glucosamine and chondroiton combined in one supplement has shown significant promise for arthritis in many orthopedic studies, and especially in veter... Read More
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A 44-year-old female asked:
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Not really: An exam from a sports specialist, then an mri, and then an arthroscopic surgery... This is the sequence of detecting meniscal tears with specificity i... Read More
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A 36-year-old female asked:
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3-4 months: It will likely be 3-4 months or more before your surgeon would let you push to extreme yoga positions. Incidence of recurrent instability after shoul... Read More
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A 37-year-old member asked:
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Sleep on your back: Avoid sleeping on your shoulders, or sides. Try to keep arms down to your side. Don't sleep on your stomach. To help keep your arms to your sides, ... Read More
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A 76-year-old female asked:
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Depends on grade: Early arthritis is controlled by activity modifications, regular low impact exercise, anti-inflammatory medicines, maintaining ideal body weight, gluc... Read More
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A 43-year-old member asked:
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Self Resolving: Mostly the problem spontaneously resolves over time. The difficulty is it is hard to predict the length of time until it resolves. Rarely needs surg... Read More
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A 32-year-old member asked:
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Contusion: A bruise. Direct impact to the shin results in damage to the soft-tissues overlying the bone. Bruising can result in the collection of blood between... Read More
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A 42-year-old member asked:
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Depends: Some surgeons allow weight-bearing as tolerated immediately with limited flexion to 90 degrees for 1 month. Other surgeons will be more conservative ... Read More
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A 36-year-old male asked:
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Wear: Wear shoes around the house to prevent many foot ailments/injuries that result in trips to the er.
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A 20-year-old female asked:
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Arthritic knee Tx: Besides surgery and medicines, the remaining options include therapy, injections and bracing. Therapy helps the most. Injections, including cortison... Read More
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A male asked:
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Exam and history: See a sports/shoulder specialist for evaluation. They will examine you after reviewing a history of shoulder problems. X-rays will probably be done.... Read More
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A 22-year-old female asked:
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Hemosiderosis: You are describing hemosiderosis, which means iron stained deep pigmented dermis. Deeply bruised or contused skin tissues often will end up permanent... Read More
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A 28-year-old male asked:
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Continue program: If knee is stable and you only have "little pains", then it sounds like things are going well. You should continue your rehab and leg strengthening. ... Read More
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A 45-year-old member asked:
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Wrong grading system: Meniscal tears are not graded in this fashion. There must be some misunderstanding. Meniscal tears can be medial or lateral or both. They have a sp... Read More
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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Should improve: By 2 months post-op, most partial knee replacements are near pain free. If pain is increasing, then discuss this with your surgeon. The pain source ... Read More
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A 29-year-old member asked:
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Actually yes: Benign bone tumor by definition. Size and location determine if it will be a problem. Small percentage can transform to malignancy late in life.
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A 49-year-old member asked:
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6-8 weeks minimum: After 2-3 weeks most symptoms will subside, but attempted quick stops or starts will bring the pain back out. Every time you feel the pain, the recov... Read More
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A 46-year-old member asked:
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No: I am unaware of any scientific study that has determined that sodas inhibit bone healing.
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A 28-year-old female asked:
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Activity Mods: Limit certain activities such as kneeling, crawling and squatting. Keep thighs strong to help control patellar position. Wear knee pads if crawling ... Read More
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A 20-year-old female asked:
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3-4/day: Typically take 3-4/day at this dose. Do not exceed this amount without notifying and following up with your doctor.
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A 16-year-old male asked:
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Return to MD: Some hamstring strains in teenagers are more than just the typical muscle strain. Was it initially evaluated by a sports specialist with x-rays? If ... Read More
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A 32-year-old member asked:
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Walking ok: Walking really should not be a problem for clavicle fracture healing. The weight of the arm on the fracture site could cause discomfort, so use of a ... Read More
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A 62-year-old male asked:
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Depends: Depends on extent of arthritic damage on x-rays, and level of functional disability. If arthritis is already severe on x-rays and in terms of functio... Read More
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A female asked:
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After: Eating before workout will limit performance and could result in stomach cramps or muscle cramps. Eating after workout will often curb your appetite,... Read More
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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Quick Recovery: Small incisions. Outpatient surgery. Minimal general anesthesia due to short surgery time and use of regional nerve blocks. Quick recovery. Less p... Read More
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A 50-year-old member asked:
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When wounds healed: When the wounds have healed you should be able to resume training. Removing the screws at this stage will have no impact on stability or the graft. ... Read More
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A 50-year-old member asked:
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Mental game: Creates Adrenalin surge. Helps lungs with surge of oxygen after initial cough and lung clearance. Nothing more than this.
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A 52-year-old female asked:
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Potential tendonitis: Those that side-sleep have a higher incidence of shoulder and hip tendobursitis. This incidence can increase with harder mattresses, obesity and smok... Read More
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A member asked:
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Formal evaluation: Sounds serious enough that you should consider a formal eval and x-ray by an orthopedic surgeon. Sounds likely to represent kneecap problems, cartila... Read More
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A female asked:
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R.I.C.E.: Rest the knee. Don't be up on it much. Keep it moving with gentle full range of motion. Ice the knee 3-4x/day x 20-30 min. Try an ace wrap for com... Read More
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A 21-year-old female asked:
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Bicycle: Exertional compartment syndrome is caused by increased pressure during exercise in the compartments of the lower leg induced by swelling/edema of the ... Read More
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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Really depends: Many different procedures can be done to the shoulder during an arthroscopic surgery. If bone spurs removed, shoulder debrided, then pain may be mini... Read More
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A 36-year-old member asked:
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No: Dmso has nothing to offer for meniscal tears.
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A 38-year-old member asked:
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Viral illness: Costochondritis, or tietze's syndrome, is an inflammation of the costochondral junction along the anterior chestwall adjacent to the sternum. It is us... Read More
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A female asked:
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Won't need: Surgery is not part of the standard of care for osgood-schlatter's disease, not necessary or helpful.
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A 67-year-old female asked:
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Painful TKR: A bone scan is only one element of working up a painful tkr. Expect also x-rays, blood tests, a joint aspiration, a labelled white cell study, and po... Read More
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A female asked:
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Usually 8 months or: More. Most will leave hardware well after the fracture is healed. Between 8 months to a year after implantation, it can be safe to remove if needed.... Read More
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A 35-year-old member asked:
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One is correct: Fibula is the correct anatomical term for the smaller of the two lower leg bones. Fibia does not exist, and comes from an accidental combination of t... Read More
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Depends: Really depends on fracture location, in regard to the hip anatomy. The manner of fixation and/or repair is determined by this fracture location, whic... Read More
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A 23-year-old female asked:
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Inflammation: Knee still inflamed and healing post-op. Needs more time. If persists long term, then this could indicate poor healing of the oats procedure.
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A 18-year-old male asked:
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Likely plica: Tissues in the knee right next to your knee cap can become swollen and inflamed. This will cause a pinching sharp pain on the inside of the knee cap ... Read More
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A 41-year-old member asked:
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No: Injuring the hamstring has not been shown to lead to improvement in speed. In fact, the contrary would be more likely, a loss in speed.
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A 24-year-old male asked:
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Unlikely: Major ligaments about the knee require substantial force to tear. Sometimes though, injuries may not be fully appreciated for how forceful they were.... Read More
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Mar 30, 2015
Dr. DeGruccio is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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Mar 31, 2015
Dr. DeGruccio is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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Jan 19, 2012
Very thorough answer!
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This was very helpful. Thanks! I've been miserable the past few weeks. Just beginning this journey to rehabilitating chronic severe double shoulder problems. Anything I can do at h
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thank you for the great response, this will help me to explain to my clients why their arms and hands are numb in the morning and the pain they have. i repair these injuries.
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Thanks for your quick reply! I have been to two. One thought too unstable for soccer the other said he wouldn't tell me not to. How effective is surgery? Will it last?
Education & Training
Medical/Graduate school
Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California, CA
Graduated 1992MD
Residency
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE HOSPITAL
Awards
2012 Talk of The Town Award for Excellence in Patient Satisfaction
patients choice award of 2012
Most Influential, Third Place, Kentucky - Winter
2013
Affiliations
Orthopedic & Sports Specialists of Louisville
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