
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
Lateral retinacular lengthening
Lateral retinacular lengthening is a procedure to improve patellar alignment. This is done by cutting and sliding the superficial layer of retinaculum over the deep layer to allow a controlled release of tension. Page updated May 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)
Lateral release
A lateral release is a surgical procedure to release tight capsular structures (lateral retinaculum) on the outer aspect of the knee. Page updated June 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)
Lateral meniscus hypermobility
The lateral meniscus is normally less stable anyway than the medial meniscus, but sometimes it may be really abnormally mobile.
Lateral meniscus
The lateral meniscus is the crescentic wedge-shaped structure seated on the top of the tibia (shinbone) on the lateral (outer) side of the knee joint. Page updated June 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)
Lateral femoral cutaneous nerve
The lateral femoral cutaneous nerve is a nerve that supplies sensation to the side and back of the thigh.