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
The patella - important anatomical relationships
The patella is the kneecap - the bone at the front of the knee. It is unusual in being a bone within a tendon - the tendon of the quadriceps muscle that spans the region from the hip to the shinbone. Any factor affecting the muscle-tendon complex is likely to trigger symptoms around the patella.
Knee X-rays and arthritis
Usually, at least three views are taken at different angles to show the joint as the kneecap slides during joint movement.
Classifying the amount of cartilage damage
Careful notekeeping allows a surgeon to follow the progression of knee damage, in order to intervene at the most appropriate time.<
The concept of arthritis compartments
The main bony contact areas in the knee joint are called 'compartments'. The surgeon may help to alleviate pain confined to one compartment via unicompartmental knee replacement.
Joint injections for knee arthritis
Before knee replacement becomes necessary, the patient my find some relief from knee pain via injections into the joint.