Method for tissue fixation
AssigneeBiomet Sports Medicine, LLC
InventorsKevin T. Stone, Gregory J. Denham, Ryan Harper
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Abstract
A method for securing a strand to a fixation member for arthroscopic fixation, wherein the fixation member includes a channel on an exterior surface and an aperture therethrough. The method includes passing a strand having first and second ends through a flexible sleeve, passing the sleeve through the aperture of the fixation member in a first direction, tensioning the strand, and pulling the sleeve in a second direction different than the first direction to secure the sleeve to the fixation member without tying the strand on the fixation member.
Claims20
A method of anchoring a flexible strand to bone, the method comprising:
- locating an anchor and an auxiliary strand coupled to the anchor in a first bone hole with a first end of the auxiliary strand and a second end of the auxiliary strand extending away from the anchor outside the first bone hole, wherein the auxiliary strand being coupled to the anchor includes the auxiliary strand extending through a passage in the anchor inside the first bone hole;
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- pulling on the second end of the auxiliary strand, after said locating, so as to pull the first end of the auxiliary strand completely through the passage in the anchor and thereby pull a portion of a flexible strand that is coupled to the first end of the auxiliary strand completely through the passage, wherein, prior to said pulling, the flexible strand is already anchored in a second bone hole that is spaced apart from the first bone hole,
- wherein said locating leaves the first end of the auxiliary strand extending out of the anchor through a first exterior opening in the anchor and the second end of the auxiliary strand extending out of the anchor through a second exterior opening in the anchor such that said pulling on the second end of the auxiliary strand pulls the first end of the auxiliary strand and the portion of the flexible strand that is coupled to the first end of the auxiliary strand into the anchor through the first exterior opening, along said passage, and back out of the anchor through the second exterior opening.
A method of anchoring a flexible strand to bone, the method comprising:
- locating an anchor in a first bone hole with an auxiliary strand extending through a passage in the anchor inside the first bone hole;
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- pulling on a second end of the auxiliary strand outside the first bone hole, after said locating, so as to pull a looped first end of the auxiliary strand into the passage in the anchor and thereby pull a portion of a flexible strand that is coupled to the looped first end of the auxiliary strand into the passage, wherein, prior to said pulling, the flexible strand is already anchored in a second bone hole that is spaced apart from the first bone hole,
- wherein said pulling is effective to pull the looped first end of the auxiliary strand and the portion of the flexible strand that is coupled to the looped first end of the auxiliary strand completely through the passage.
A method of anchoring a flexible strand to bone, the method comprising:
- locating an anchor in a first bone hole with an auxiliary strand extending through a passage in the anchor inside the first bone hole, wherein said locating leaves a first end of the auxiliary strand and a second end of the auxiliary strand outside the first bone hole;
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- pulling on the second end of the auxiliary strand, after said locating, so as to pull the first end of the auxiliary strand completely through the passage in the anchor and thereby pull a portion of a flexible strand that is coupled to the first end of the auxiliary strand completely through the passage, wherein, prior to said pulling the flexible strand is already anchored in a second bone hole that is spaced apart from the first bone hole,
- wherein the passage is generally U-shaped in the anchor during said pulling.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.