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

Double-level osteotomy

A double-level osteotomy is a procedure where both tibia and femur bones are cut across and realigned in the same procedure. This surgery is relevant in patients who have marked lower limb alignment problems, and involves simultaneous high tibial osteotomy and distal femoral osteotomy. Page updated May 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)

Double-bundle ACL graft

A double-bundle graft in ACL surgery uses two bundles of graft material instead of one, to try to mimic the normal ligament.

Double varus

Double varus is bow legs (varus deformity) are accompanied by demonstrable lateral collateral ligament damage laxity, with lateral joint opening.

Dorsum

The dorsum of a structure is the back of that structure.

Donut brace

A donut brace is a knee brace with a hole cut out of the centre to accommodate the kneecap.