Anchor assembly

An anchor assembly for securing a tissue to a bone or tissue, the anchor comprising:

• an elongate and flexible anchoring implant for inserting into a bore of the bone or the tissue, the anchoring implant comprising a proximal end and a distal end with sidewalls extending therebetween,
• a suture comprising:
• a first suture segment extending between the proximal and distal ends of the implant, the first suture segment being passed through a first side wall portion of the implant;
• a second suture segment extending between the proximal and distal ends of the implant, the second suture segment being passed through a second side wall portion of the implant;
• a bridging loop extending between the first suture segment and the second suture segment, the bridging loop being located at or adjacent an in-use upper portion of the anchoring implant that includes the proximal end of the anchoring implant;
• and wherein each of the first and second suture segments comprises respective terminal ends of the suture that extend from the anchor implant;
• wherein applying tension to one or both of the terminal ends of the suture, when the anchoring implant is located in the bone or the tissue, causes the proximal end of the flexible anchoring implant to be drawn towards the distal end of the anchoring implant to effect change of shape of the implant from an elongate and radially narrow configuration into an axially shortened and radially extended configuration so as to deploy the anchoring implant in the bore, and wherein each of the first and second suture segments comprises a respective distal loop to engage a thickness of an in-use lower portion of the anchoring implant when the terminal ends of the suture are tensioned.