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
Keyhole surgery
Keyhole surgery is surgery performed with thin instruments through two or more tiny cuts, or portals.
Kellgren-Lawrence Classification
The Kellgren-Lawrence Classification is an X-ray classification scheme for osteoarthritis of the knee.
Juvenile traction osteochondritis
Juvenile traction osteochondritis is an overuse syndrome where jumping activities in a young person causes excessive pulling of the patellar tendon on the tibial tubercle.
Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is arthritis affecting a child (under 16) in several joints where evidence exists that the condition is autoimmune - ie the child's own immune system is attacking its joints.
Jumper's knee
Jumper's knee is an overuse condition, also called patellar tendinitis, tendinopathy or tendinosis, where the area of attachment of the patellar tendon to the patella becomes painful.