KNEEguru Contributor

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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

Trochlear implant

A trochlear implant in the knee is a metal resurfacing of the groove of the trochlea to replace damaged joint cartilage there. Page updated May 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)

Trochlear groove

The trochlear groove is the concave surface where the patella (kneecap) makes contact with the femur (thighbone). Also called the 'trochlea'. Page updated March 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)

Trochlear dysplasia

Trochlear dysplasia is a condition of the knee where theĀ  trochlear groove is abnormal, usually at its upper end where it is abnormally flat or even heaped into a 'bump'. Page updated May 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)

Trochlea

The trochlea is the groove of the femur at the knee joint, where the patella runs. Page updated May 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)

Triple varus

Triple varus is a bow leg deformity where varus bowing of the knees increases on standing and also the knees tend to go backward.