Method for reconstructing a ligament

A method for securing a graft ligament in a bone tunnel, the method comprising the steps of:

• (1) forming a first bone tunnel in a bone, and forming a second bone tunnel in the same bone, the second bone tunnel being transverse to, and intersecting, the first bone tunnel;
• (2) extending a transverse drill pin through the bone, the drill pin positioning an elongated flexible strand in the second transverse bone tunnel so that the flexible member extends through the second transverse bone tunnel and across the first bone tunnel;
• (3) passing a flexible loop into the first bone tunnel and pulling the flexible loop out of a first bone tunnel open end;
• (4) passing a graft ligament through the flexible loop;
• (5) pulling a the flexible loop, and thereby the graft ligament, into the first bone tunnel so that the graft ligament extends past the intersection of the second transverse bone tunnel with the first bone tunnel;
• (6) pulling said flexible strand substantially straight in the second transverse bone tunnel
• (7) positioning a crosspin on the flexible strand and in the second transverse bone tunnel so that the graft ligament is looped over the crosspin, thereby to secure the graft ligament in the first bone tunnel;
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• (8) severing and removing the flexible loop.