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
Complications of cruciate reconstruction
Generally in good hands cruciate ligament reconstruction is highly successful, but major complications may occur.
Cruciate ligament rehabilitation
The first period of rehabilitation concentrates on preventing the formation of adhesions (internal scars) inside the knee by passive range-of-motion exercises and efforts to minimise inflammation.
Cruciate ligament reconstruction
Cruciate ligament reconstruction involves using a graft to refashion a cruciate replacement.
Cruciate ligament repair
Cruciate ligament repair involves suturing the damaged ligament, and the repair may also be augmented with a synthetic construct.
Multiligament instability of the knee
'Complex' or 'multi-ligament' instability of the knee implies damage to more than one stabilising structure, often giving considerable difficulty in diagnosis and management.