Crimp with an insert to hold a cable

An apparatus for securing a cerclage member about a bone within a living body, the apparatus comprising:

• a crimp including a lumen extending longitudinally therethrough from a proximal opening to a distal opening;
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• an insert received within the lumen, the insert being sized and shaped so that, when in an initial configuration, lateral sides thereof extend substantially parallel to walls of the lumen forming a first space on a first side of the insert sized to slidably receive therein a cerclage member to be bound around a target portion of bone and forming, on a second side of the lumen a second space sized to slidably receive the cerclage member, the insert including a void between the first and second sides thereof and an opening to the void at a distal end of the insert;
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• a wedge member including a reduced width proximal end and sized to be received within the opening at the distal end of the insert, a width of the wedge member tapering from the reduced width proximal end to a maximum width distally therefrom, the wedge member being sized so that, when driven into the void via the opening at the distal end of the insert, the taper of the wedge member drives the first and second sides of the insert laterally outward into the first and second spaces to secure the cerclage member therein, wherein the insert includes a groove at a proximal end of the void and extending along a longitudinal axis of the insert, the wedge member including a plug at a proximal end thereof that is received in the groove when the wedge member is inserted into the void in a desired configuration in response to a longitudinally directed force.