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
2011 - Outcome of surgical treatment of arthrofibrosis following ligament reconstruction
An 'interpretation' of a 2011 publishing discussing how important it is to have a flexible approach when dealing with internal scarring after cruciate ligament surgery.
2011 - MACI - a new era?
This is the editor's 'interpretation' of a 2011 publication in the medical journals that gives an overview of cartilage injury, a brief description of current treatment options and outcomes, and a discussion of principles and techniques of MACI.
2011 - Articular Cartilage Regeneration with Stem Cells
The Editor's interpretation of a 2011 book chapter published in the book 'Modern Arthroscopy'.
2010 - Bilateral congenital absence of anterior cruciate ligaments associated with scoliosis and hip dysplasia
An 'interpretation' of a 2010 medical paper discussing those people who are born without cruciate ligaments, and the sort of associated conditions that might go with this.
2010 - Failure of interpositional membrane to prevent recurrent arthrofibrosis
An 'interpretation' of a 2010 paper which is interesting, although the technique failed to prevent the recurrence of arthrofibrosis.