Dr Sheila Strover
Clinical Editor
Degrees: BSc (Hons), MB BCh, MBA
Particular expertise: clinical editing, online publishing, patient advocacy, KNEEguru Founder
Location: Newquay, CON, TR7 1HU, United Kingdom
Dr Sheila Strover is the Founder and previous Clinical Editor of the KNEEguru website.
Her medical studies were completed at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa - BSc(Hons) (1968) and MBBCh (1974). She emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1983 and worked as an anaesthetist (anaesthesiologist) until 1989 when she left practice to work in a managerial position at the Droitwich Knee Clinic, which she co-founded with her knee surgeon ex-husband, <a href="/KNEEnotes/retired-knee-surgeon/dr-mr-angus-strover>Angus Strover.
There she was involved with the establishment of The Knee Foundation (an academic trust) and helped to design the content of their academic courses, as well as designing and bringing to production a 3-dimensional arthroscopic training model of the knee.
A sabbatical in at Warwick University 1973-1974 earned her an MBA (1994), and at this stage she also established the KNEEguru company and website and , with help from the shareholders, she started to build the site content which continues to grow.
Dr Strover resigned from the Clinic in 2002, and has concentrated her energies on creating within the KNEEguru website a successful venue for the collaboration of Patients, Clinical Practitioners and Industry in the knee field.
Contributions
Z-plasty
A surgical procedure used to lengthen tissues, usually where scarring has resulted in contracture. The surgeon makes a Z-shaped incision, and by rearranging the corners of the Z the structure can be lengthened.
Yag laser
Yag laser is a form of laser which heats up the fluid within tissues, making the tissue shrivel up.
Xenograft
A xenograft is a graft taken from an animal for use in a different species, eg human.
X-ray
X-rays of the knee will reveal the bones but not the soft tissues. The surgeon may need to 'interpret' the blank spaces to get information about the menisci or joint cartilage.
WOMAC
The WOMAC is a scoring system for functional disability from osteoarthritis.