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
Tourniquet
A tourniquet in knee surgery is an inflatable wrapping which goes around the upper thigh to stop blood flow during an operation. Page updated March 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)
Total meniscectomy
A total meniscectomy is the surgical removal of the whole of a meniscus - the shock absorber of the knee.
Total knee replacement operating room considerations.
A number of operating room issues are of importance when making choices about knee replacement.
Total knee replacement failure and revision
If a knee replacement fails it may have to be removed and replaced. This is the main reason why surgeons counsel patients to wait before undergoing knee replacement if they are still young. Page updated February 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)
Total knee replacement
A total knee replacement (TKR) is a replacement of the femoral and tibial surfaces of the knee joint, and generally also part of the patella, with metal and plastic. Page updated February 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)