Methods of tissue repairs
AssigneeArthrex, Inc.
InventorsPaul C. Brady, Andrew C. Petry, Shaun G. Leblanc, Jennifer Brooks
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Abstract
Methods for tissue repairs with mattress stitch are disclosed. A mattress stitch is created with a suturing construct that includes one or more soft-body anchors and a flexible strand attached to the soft-body anchors. A free, tensionable end of the flexible strand is removably attached to a suture passer and passed through the tissue. The free end is then passed through the soft-body anchors to form a knotless, continuous, uninterrupted, flexible, adjustable, self-locking, tensionable loop around and through the tissue.
Claims16
A method of suturing comprising:
- fixedly attaching a first end of a flexible construct to a fixation device;
- removably attaching a second end of the flexible construct to a suture passer;
- inserting the suture passer and the second end of the flexible construct into a joint space while the fixation device is maintained outside the joint space;
- advancing the second end of the flexible construct through tissue to be sutured so that the second end enters and exits the tissue at two separate locations;
- pulling the suture passer out of the tissue;
- passing the second end of the flexible construct through a body of the fixation device maintained outside of the joint space to form a tensionable loop around and through the tissue, wherein the fixation device is a soft-body fixation device;
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- securing the fixation device over the tissue.
A method of suturing comprising:
- securing a first end of a flexible construct to a soft-body fixation device;
- removably attaching a second end of the flexible construct to a suture passer;
- advancing the suture passer and the second end of the flexible construct into a joint space and through tissue to be sutured so that the second end enters and exits the tissue at two separate locations, while the soft-body fixation device with the first end are maintained outside the joint space;
- pulling the suture passer with the second end of the flexible construct out of the tissue;
- passing the second end of the flexible construct through a body of the soft-body fixation device to form a knotless, adjustable, self-locking, tensionable loop around and through the tissue;
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- forming a mattress stitch connected to the soft-body fixation device, wherein the mattress stitch is located on one side of the tissue to be sutured, and the soft-body fixation device is located on and abuts another side of the tissue to be sutured, wherein all steps are conducted while the soft-body fixation device is maintained outside the joint space.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.