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.
Claims7
(canceled)
An anchor construct, comprising:
- an all-suture anchor;
- a first suture having two end portions, the first suture slidably received by the all-suture anchor such that the all-suture anchor can bunch up relative to the first suture;
- and
- a second suture having two end portions, the second suture slidably received by the all-suture anchor such that only three out of the four suture end portions of the first and second sutures extend in the same direction from the all-suture anchor for operator use.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.