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

Surgical cartilage repair for knee osteoarthritis

This is a major area of modern knee surgery, where the focus is on restoring normality to the knee.

Injections into the knee for knee arthritis

Pain in the arthritic knee may be reduced with hyaluronic acid or steroid injections into the joint.

Orthotics and aids for knee arthritis

Orthotics, walking aids, unloader braces and household aids are valuable in patients with arthritic knee pain.

Knee arthritis and exercise

Symptomatic improvement in patients with arthritic knees can be achieved with home exercise routines.

Knee osteoarthritis and diet

Not only is overweight an issue with arthritic knee pain, but attention should be paid to the benefits and detriments of certain food groups.