Arthrex, Gmbh

Peter S Borden

Timothy R Hoover

Peter J Dreyfuss

Thomas Dooney, Jr

Derek C Sullivan

Kenneth T Helenbolt

Paul C Brady

Andrew Christian Petry

Yasuyuki Ishibashi

Alan Hirahara

Kyle Chun

Christopher Donaldson

Kenneth T Henenbolt

Thomas Dooney Jr

Alan M Hirahara

Systems and methods for providing fixation of soft tissue (for example, ligament) to bone by employing a novel multi-piece device. The novel multi-piece device is a ligament fixation system consisting of a larger collar that is initially impacted into a bone aperture, and a smaller plug/bullet-shaped part that is impacted into the larger collar. During ligament repair/reconstruction, the graft is inserted into a bone tunnel with sutures from the graft extending outside the tunnel. The sutures are passed through a collar of the multi-part device and the collar is then inserted into the bone tunnel. The graft suture strands may be tensioned. Subsequently, the smaller plug/bullet-shaped part is impacted into the collar thereby maintaining the tension on the graft sutures. The plug/bullet-shaped part is tightened after the desired tension on the suture is achieved.

Ligament fixation device and method

Systems and methods for soft tissue to bone repairs, without knot tying. Soft tissue repair systems include self-cinching constructs with a fixation device, a flexible strand with multiple flexible limbs, and a shuttle/pull device attached to the flexible strand to shuttle the multiple flexible limbs through the flexible strand and form a locking splice.

Tensionable constructs with multi-limb locking mechanism through single splice and methods of tissue repair

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Palos Verdes Estates, CA, United States of America

Peter S Borden