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
The Pediatric Anterior Cruciate Ligament - evaluation and management strategies
A review by KNEEguru of a published medical book with expert contributors - Editor: Shital N Parikh, Professor of orthopaedic Surgery at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Center.
What are the alternatives to a joint replacement?
Discussion looking at the alternatives to a joint replacement in active patients whose osteoarthritis tends to be limited.
2017 - A Comparison of the Outcomes for Cartilage Defects of the Knee Treated With Biologic Resurfacing Versus Focal Metallic Implants.
An interpretation of a published journal article from 2017.
2017 - Primary repair of the anterior cruciate ligament: A paradigm shift.
An interpretation by the editor of a 2017 medical publication.
2016 - Outcomes After Isolated Medial Patellofemoral Ligament Reconstruction for the Treatment of Recurrent Lateral Patellar Dislocations
Review and Meta-analysis of publications reporting outcomes in patients who had an isolated MPFL reconstruction for patellar dislocation.