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

Thermal shrinkage

Thermal shrinkage is a controversial technique where a radiofrequency 'wand' is stroked over the fibres of a ligament or capsule to cause shrinkage, and consequent tightening of any laxity.

Theraband

Theraband is a trade name for wide elastic bands used for rehabilitation exercises, and development of strength.

Tenodesis

A tenodesis is a surgical procedure where the origin of a tendon is changed in order to improve joint stability.

Tendonitis

Tendonitis is an inflammation of a tendon within its tendon sheath. It is the same as 'tendinitis', but the latter spelling is preferred amongst medics.

Tendon

A tendon is the white fibrous end of a muscle, which connects the muscle to the bone.