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
Arthritis cysts and spurs
Cysts and spurs are created by the knee joint bones trying to heal themselves from the arthritic process.
What's special about hyaline (articular) cartilage?
Articular cartilage has a very unique structure with few cells and a high water content.
How knee arthritis progresses
The joint cartilage damage in the arthritic knee progresses and can be monitored in case intervention could be useful to slow its progress.
The common arthritis pathway
Arthritis can trigger from an injury, poor knee mechanics, weight issues and many other causes, but if the pattern is not interrupted the end-stage is the same.
Types of arthritis
The most common form of knee arthritis is 'osteoarthritis', while the knee can also be affected by rheumatoid arthritis, gouty arthritis and infective arthritis.