Tissue repair
AssigneeSmith & Nephew, Inc.
InventorsSteven William Astorino, Peter Klindt Sorensen, Laura Lindsey Mills
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Abstract
An apparatus includes a flexible fixation member having a body with a longitudinal extent and a width, the body defining a plurality of openings through the body, each of the plurality of openings formed substantially cross wise through the width of the body, and a suture having two terminal ends, the suture being interwoven through each of the plurality of openings in the body of the fixation member such that multiple portions of the fixation member are slidably coupled to the suture and configurable to form a cluster within a surgical site.
Claims10
An apparatus for insertion into a bone hole comprising:
- a flexible fixation member comprising a body formed by two legs and a distal, U-shaped bend joining the two legs, each of the legs terminating in a proximal free end;
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- a suture received through each of the legs of the flexible fixation member, the suture formed by two legs and a distal, U-shaped bend joining the two legs, each of the suture legs having a proximal end region, one of the proximal end regions extending from an opening in one of the legs of the body and the other of the proximal end regions extending from an opening in the other of the legs of the body with each proximal end region terminally exiting from the fixation member at the respective opening, the U-shaped bend of the suture being distal to the U-shaped bend of the body;
- wherein the fixation member having the U-shaped bend is slidably coupled to the suture and configurable to form a cluster within a surgical site.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.