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

Adhesions

Adhesions are frond-like filaments which form in the knee in response to inflammation and/or prolonged immobilisation of the knee. Page updated February 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)

Adductor

An adductor is a muscle which, when contracted, adducts the limb, bringing it closer to the midline.

Adduct

To adduct the lower limb is to move it towards or past the midline of the body. Page updated March 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)

Acupuncture

Acupuncture is a system, based on traditional Chinese medicine, of needling special points on the body to relieve pain or improve well-being.

Activities of Daily Living Scale

Activities of Daily Living Scale is an assessment of how well a person can manage their own basic physical needs. Page updated March 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)