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

Iliotibial band syndrome

The Iliotibial band syndrome is the same thing as 'iliotibial band friction syndrome'.

Iliotibial band stretch

An iliotibial band stretch is a knee rehabilitation exercise to stretch the fibrous band at the side of the thigh. Page updated February 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)

Iliotibial band friction syndrome

Iliotibial band friction syndrome is an overuse disorder, where with exercise a person experiences pain on the outer side of the knee over the bony prominence called the femoral epicondyle.

Iliotibial band

The iliotibial band is a thickened and strong tendinous strap which runs down the side of the thigh. Page updated April 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)

IKDC

IKDC is an abbreviation of 'International Knee Documentation Committee', and is a commonly used scoring system for knee problems.