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

Cartilage tissue engineering

Cartilage tissue engineering includes those laboratory processes that allow the expansion of cartilage for use in replacing damaged joint cartilage.

Cartilage resurfacing

Cartilage resurfacing is the method of replacing an area of damaged joint cartilage with a shallow implant, which can be cell-based (eg ACI) or a resurfacing implant such as the Hemicap.

Cartilage repair

Cartilage Repair involves various surgical techniques to restore damaged joint or articular cartilage in an effort to prevent progression to osteoarthritis. Page updated July 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)

Cartilage graft

A cartilage graft is a transplant of a piece of joint cartilage into a prepared recipient area where cartilage had been damaged.

Cartilage fibrillation

Cartilage fibrillation is an advanced stage of articular cartilage damage, when the normally resilient material breaks down in feathery strands revealing the underneath bone. Page updated May 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)