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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 1997
Filed:
Feb. 20, 1996
E Marlowe Goble, Logan, UT (US);
David P Luman, Logan, UT (US);
Alan Chervitz, Logan, UT (US);
C Brad Story, Liberty, UT (US);
Ramarao Gundlalpalli, Logan, UT (US);
MedicineLodge, Inc., Logan, UT (US);
Abstract
A bone anchor and method for its use in an arthroscopic and open soft tissue surgical procedure to mount a ligament graft, or the like, under tension and at variable lengths in a tunnel section that is formed through a bone or bones. The bone anchor embodiments of the invention each have a body for mounting into and/or adjacent a bone cortex surface in a tunnel section to allow at least one suture or shaft that has been fitted through the bone anchor, and is attached to the ligament graft to be pulled through the bone anchor. The suture or shaft to pass across a movable clamp fitted within the body to move so as to allow the suture or shaft to be pulled freely through the bone anchor distal, but will clamp against the suture or shaft, prohibiting its being pulled back therethrough. A pulling of the suture or shaft through the seated bone anchor applies a tension and sets a required length to a graft whose opposite end is secured, with the clamp locking against a section of that suture or shaft, to maintain that applied tension. Whereafter, the excess suture or shaft can be cut away, permanently mounting the graft.