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
Pseudolocking
Pseudolocking is the condition where the knee suddenly is unable to fully extend, but then a little manoeuvre allows it to loosen up and have full range of motion again.
Pseudo
Pseudo means 'false'. So 'pseudo-locking', for example, is when the knee appears to be stuck in a bent position, but readily unlocks.
PRP
PRP is an abbreviation for 'Platelet Rich Plasma', a concentration of platelets separated from a blood sample by centrifuge. Page updated February 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)
Proximal tibial nerve
The proximal tibial nerve arises from the sciatic nerve just proximal to the knee joint.
Proximal realignment
Proximal realignment procedures are those surgical procedures performed above the attachment of the kneecap in an attempt to better align it in the groove of the underlying femur bone. Page updated August 2023 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)