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
2006 - Effects of strength training on the incidence and progression of knee osteoarthritis
An 'interpretation' of a 2006 publication where the conclusions were rather uncertain as to the benefits of strength training in preventing the progression of osteoarthritis.
2006 - Effectiveness of exercise interventions in reducing pain symptoms among older adults with knee osteoarthritis: A review.
An 'interpretation' of a 2006 publication presenting somewhat inconclusive findings as to the value of exercise in managing osteoarthritis in older patients.
2005 - Arthrofibrosis: Evaluation, Prevention, and Treatment.
An 'interpretation' of a medical publication from 2005 where the authors offer surgeons a list of practical advice about arthrofibrosis of the knee.
2005 - Oxford medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty in patients younger and older than 60 years of age
An 'interpretation' of a 2005 publication presenting the results of studies to determine whether age was a determinant of success of partial knee replacement using the Oxford prosthesis.
2005 - Physical therapy treatment effectiveness for osteoarthritis of the knee
An 'interpretation' of a 2005 article to establish the degree to which exercise is useful in managing osteoarthritis of the knee.