Compressible tubes for placing implants and related medical kits and methods of using same

A medical delivery device, comprising:

• a needle;
• a tube comprising a first segment that is fixedly attached to the needle and a second compressible, flexible, and impermeable segment that increases in diameter relative to the first segment and extends rearward of the needle such that a maximum diameter of the second segment is greater than a maximum diameter of the first segment and a maximum diameter of the needle, wherein, prior to and during surgical use, the second segment defines an open elongate interior channel with an open trailing end;
• and
• a flexible medical implant having a length with a leading end and an opposing trailing end, wherein the leading end is held as a free end inside the tube spaced apart a distance from a trailing end of the needle, wherein the leading end is not directly or indirectly attached to the tube or any needle, and wherein between 20-100% of the flexible medical implant length is held in the open elongate interior channel of the tube;
• wherein the flexible medical implant is releasably and loosely held inside the tube such that the flexible medical implant is not in snug abutting contact with an inner surface of the tube thereby enabling the flexible medical implant to entirely slidably exit the open trailing end of the tube when the flexible medical implant is disposed within soft tissue during surgical use and when the needle and the tube are pulled out of and away from the soft tissue;
• and
• wherein the tube is configured so that compression of a portion of the second segment caused by contact with the soft tissue during implantation temporarily compresses the tube such that only this compression tightly holds the implant therein.