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

Noyes classification

The Noyes' Classification is a system for classifying via arthroscopy the degree of cartilage destruction in an arthritic joint.

Notchplasty

A notchplasty is a surgical widening of the intercondylar notch, usually performed as part of an anterior cruciate ligament revision to limit trauma to the reconstructed ligament. Page updated March 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)

Notch impingement

Notch impingement is a condition where the intercondylar notch of the femur is too narrow to easily accommodate the cruciate ligaments or a cruciate ligament graft. Page updated May 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)

Notch

The notch in the knee world refers to the 'intercondylar notch'.

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory

A non-steroidal anti-inflammatory is a medication to reduce inflammation, but which does not contain steroids (cortisone products).