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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2013
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc., Raynham, MA (US);
DePuy Synthes Products, Inc., Raynham, MA (US);
Abstract
A soft tissue fixation assembly includes a plurality of deformable bone anchors and a suture that is configured to fixedly attach to each of the bone anchors. One or more of the bone anchors can be inserted into a bone, and one or more of the bone anchors can be inserted through soft tissue and into the bone. The suture can be inserted through the bone anchors, and energy can be applied to the anchors, thereby causing a deformable material of the bone anchors to deform, thereby capturing the strand of suture in the bone anchor. The strand of suture can be placed in tension, and can extend over the soft tissue so as to retain the soft tissue in contact with the bone.