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
2007 - The long-term consequences of anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus injuries: osteoarthritis
An 'interpretation' of a paper from 2007, which is a literature review trying to determine whether cruciate ligament injury predisposes one to osteoarthritis of the knee.
2006 - Effects of strength training on the incidence and progression of knee osteoarthritis
An 'interpretation' of a 2006 publication where the conclusions were rather uncertain as to the benefits of strength training in preventing the progression of osteoarthritis.
2006 - Posterolateral Reconstruction Techniques. Techniques in Knee Surgery
An 'interpretation' of a 2006 medical article outlining the important anatomy of the important posterolateral corner of the knee, and the surgical procedures that are relevant there.
2006 - Effectiveness of exercise interventions in reducing pain symptoms among older adults with knee osteoarthritis: A review.
An 'interpretation' of a 2006 publication presenting somewhat inconclusive findings as to the value of exercise in managing osteoarthritis in older patients.
2006 - Heterotopic ossification after total knee arthroplasty
An 'interpretation' of an article from 2006 discussing the issue of bony changes in the soft tissues around the knee after knee replacement.