Devices, systems, and methods for attaching soft tissue to bone tissue
AssigneeStabilynx, Inc.
InventorsChristopher Feezor, Michael Rosenthal, Joseph P. Donahue
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Abstract
A suture anchoring device for fixing a soft tissue to a bone tissue is disclosed that enables the exchange of sutures between anchors after implantation. The suture anchoring device may include a body that is inserted into the bone tissue, a suture exchange fitting situation within a passage formed within the body, and one or more pre-loaded sutures looped through the suture exchange fitting and projecting proximally from a proximal opening formed in the body. Surgical kits and surgical methods for performing various repair procedures using one or more suture anchoring device are also disclosed.
Claims17
A method of securing soft tissue to bone, the method comprising:
- inserting a first suture anchor into bone at a first location, the first suture anchor comprising a first inner lumen having a first proximal opening and a first internal eyelet positioned within the first inner lumen, a first elongated loading member threaded through the first eyelet and having limbs extending through the first proximal opening, wherein the first elongated loading member comprises a first aperture;
- inserting a second suture anchor into bone at a second location, the second suture anchor comprising a second inner lumen having a second proximal opening and a first suture extending through the second proximal opening from within the second inner lumen;
- passing the first suture through the first aperture of the first elongated loading member;
- pulling on one end of the first elongated loading member to pull the first suture through the first eyelet;
- pulling on the first suture to tension the first suture over the soft tissue;
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- after pulling on the first suture, passing the first suture to a third anchor and securing the first suture to the third anchor, wherein the third anchor is a knotless anchor, wherein the first and second anchors are positioned beneath the soft tissue and the third anchor is positioned beyond an edge of the soft tissue.
A method of securing soft tissue to bone, the method comprising:
- inserting a first suture anchor into bone at a first location, the first suture anchor comprising a first inner lumen having a first proximal opening and a first internal eyelet positioned within the first inner lumen, a first elongated loading member threaded through the first eyelet and having limbs extending through the first proximal opening, wherein the first elongated loading member comprises a first aperture;
- inserting a second suture anchor into bone at a second location, the second suture anchor comprising a second inner lumen having a second proximal opening and a first suture extending through the second proximal opening from within the second inner lumen;
- passing the first suture through the first aperture of the first elongated loading member;
- pulling on one end of the first elongated loading member to pull the first suture through the first eyelet;
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- pulling on the first suture to tension the first suture over the soft tissue;
- wherein the first suture anchor comprises a second suture extending through the first proximal opening from within the first inner lumen;
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- wherein the second suture anchor comprises a second internal eyelet positioned within the second inner lumen, a second elongated loading member threaded through the second eyelet and having limbs extending through the second proximal opening, wherein the second elongated loading member comprises a second aperture.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.