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

2016 - Anterior Cruciate Ligament Repair with Internal Brace Ligament Augmentation

A case study with two-year follow-up of an adult patient whose ACL tear was managed with repair and internal brace augmentation.

2015 - Posteromedial Corner of the Knee: The Neglected Corner

An interpretation of a published medical article on the posteromedial corner of the knee.

Baker's Cyst - Symptoms and Causes

A short explanation of the very common problem of a painful lump at the back of the knee due to a Baker's cyst.

Why do so many knee replacement patients end up with a stiff knee?

A discussion of those triggers that may lead to a stiff knee after knee replacement.

2016 - Posterior meniscal root injuries

Review article of literature relating to meniscal root tears