Dr Sheila Strover
Editorial Volunteer
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. She now offers her time to The Knee Foundation charity as a volunteer editor.
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, 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.
She retired from all executive roles in 2025, but retains the position of Volunteer Editor for the KNEEguru.
Contributions
Malalignment
The word 'mal' means 'bad' or 'poor'. 'Malalignment' implies that the relationship or geometry of one bone in relation to its neighbouring bone is outside of what one might consider normal.
Magnetic resonance imaging
Magnetic resonance imaging is a method of imaging of the body that allows the organs to be viewed in 'slices'.
mACI
mACI is an abbreviation of 'matrix-induced autologous chondrocyte implantation', which means the implantation back into a patient of their own cartilage cells which have been seeded onto a matrix during laboratory processing. Page updated May 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)
Lysis of adhesions
Lysis of adhesions is the surgical procedure of breaking down motion-limiting strands of fibrous material (adhesions) which can form, for example, inside vulnerable areas of the knee if the joint has been inflamed for some time. Page updated June 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)
Lysholm
The Lysholm scoring system was originally developed to give a score to patients with knee ligament injuries.