
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
Assisted passive extensions
Assisted passive extensions are knee rehabilitation exercises to improve leg extension when the muscles are weak. Page updated July 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)
Assisted flexion
Assisted flexion is a knee rehabilitation exercise where the good leg acts as a helper to increase the flexion.
Aspiration
Aspiration of the knee is the removal of fluid from inside the joint, using a needle and syringe. Page updated September 2023 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)
Artificial meniscus
An artificial meniscus is a manufactured device that is slipped into the gap where a knee meniscus has previously been removed.
Articular cartilage repair
Articular cartilage repair is the repair or improvement of defects of the joint cartilage, either by surgery or biological intervention, or both. Page updated May 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)