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
Proximal
Proximal is a positional word, referring to a position closer to the head.
Prosthesis choice
Total knee replacement requires the surgeon to consider a number of factors when deciding on the type of total knee replacement for any particular patient.
Proprioception
Proprioception is the ability to sense the position and movement of a joint in space and it is a key component of balance and knee joint stability. Page updated July 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)
Prone hangs
Prone hangs are simple rehabilitation stretches to improve knee extension. Page updated May 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)
PROM
PROM is an abbreviation for 'Passive Range-of-Motion', which is the range of motion your knee can achieve when someone moves it for you. [The abbreviation can also be used for 'patient-reported outcome measure' - but that is usually given as a plural - ie PROMS.] Page updated April 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)