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
Fractures and tendon ruptures involving the patellar mechanism
During extension, the patella and the two tendons are subjected to high tensile forces, and the patella is also subjected to high compressive forces where it makes contact with the femur bone. Failure may be above the patella (a quads tendon rupture), through the patella (a patellar fracture) or below the patella (a patellar tendon rupture).
Cartilage damage of the patella
Cartilage damage of the patella ranges from mild softening to total destruction with exposure of the underlying bone.
The unstable patella
A discussion about patellar instability, the factors that may cause the patella to sublux or dislocate, and what can be done about it.
Pain syndromes related to the patella
Strain on the patella may be the result of an abnormality anywhere in the chain of structures influencing the alignment or tracking of the patella - and the set of symptoms peculiar to each part of the chain is referred to as a 'syndrome'.