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
Cruciate ligament
The cruciate ligaments are the important central 'stays' of the knee joint, contributing significantly to knee stability. Page updated June 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)
Cruciate instability
Cruciate instability is a feeling of abnormal movement in the knee joint consequent on damage to one or both cruciate ligaments. Page updated June 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)
Cruciate allograft
Cruciate allograft is a reconstruction of the cruciate ligament using donor material from another person. The tissue is harvested from a donor, and processed to make it safe and able to be stored. Page updated June 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)
Cruciate
The word 'cruciate' means 'crossed', and in the knee the term relates to the cruciate ligaments right in the middle of the knee. Page updated June 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)
CRPS
Abbreviation for 'complex regional pain syndrome', CRPS is a syndrome of excessive pain following injury or surgery to the knee, where the pain is accompanied by skin colour and temperature changes and problems with regaining range of motion of the limb.