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
Meniscal trimming
Meniscal trimming is a minor surgical procedure to remove a frayed inner edge of a knee meniscus. It is also referred to as 'arthroscopic partial meniscectomy' (APM). Page updated June 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)
Meniscal transplant
A meniscal transplant is the transplant of a donor meniscus into the patient when their own meniscus is damaged beyond repair.
Meniscal tear
A meniscal tear is a tear through the substance of the meniscus, the shock absorber of the knee. Page updated January 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)
Meniscal scaffold
A meniscal scaffold is a bio-engineered framework upon which cells can be seeded to create a replacement meniscus.
Meniscal root tear
A meniscal root tear is a tear of the knee meniscus close to the root region where the meniscus is anchored to the underlying bone. Page updated December 2023 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)