KNEEguru Contributor

Dr Sheila Strover

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

ACL

ACL is an abbreviation for 'anterior cruciate ligament'. Page updated June 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)

ACI

ACI is an abbreviation for 'autologous chondrocyte implantation', a two-stage surgical procedure to repair damaged joint cartilage.

Achilles tendon

The Achilles tendon is the big tendon at the back of the ankle.

Abrasion arthroplasty

Abrasion arthroplasty is a surgical procedure to smooth off bits of damaged joint cartilage using a high-speed burr.

Abductor

An abductor is a muscle which, when contracted, causes the limb to abduct.