KNOTLESS SWIVEL ANCHOR WITH ANCHOR BODY ADVANCED OVER ANCHOR TIP
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1. A suture anchor comprising:
- an anchor body; and
an anchor tip with an aperture configured to capture suture, the anchor tip being rotatably engagable with the anchor body, the anchor body being insertable over the anchor tip to cover the anchor tip and to secure the suture anchor and the captured suture into the bone.
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Abstract
A suture anchor construct with an anchor tip and eyelet that securely engages and locks into a cannulated anchor body (a fixation device such as a cannulated interference screw or plug). The eyelet of the anchor tip receives a strand attached to tissue or graft, such that the strand is able to freely slide through the eyelet to correctly position tissue attached to the strand. The anchor tip has an outer diameter smaller than the inner diameter of the anchor body (fixation device) and it retracts into the anchor body as the anchor body is advanced into the bone hole to fixate the strand and the attached tissue to bone.
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1. A suture anchor comprising:
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an anchor body; and an anchor tip with an aperture configured to capture suture, the anchor tip being rotatably engagable with the anchor body, the anchor body being insertable over the anchor tip to cover the anchor tip and to secure the suture anchor and the captured suture into the bone. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A suture anchor assembly, comprising:
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a driver with a handle and a shaft; an anchor body pre-loaded on the shaft of the driver; and an anchor tip removably attached to the shaft and configured to capture suture, wherein the anchor body is insertable over, and engageable with, the anchor tip, to fully cover the anchor tip and to secure the suture anchor with the captured suture in bone. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14)
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15. A method of tissue fixation comprising:
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securing a flexible strand to tissue to be fixated; providing a bone socket; anchoring the flexible strand into the bone socket using an anchor tip with an eyelet to capture the flexible strand and inserting a fixation device over the anchor tip with the captured flexible strand, to completely cover the anchor tip, thereby providing tissue fixation. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19)
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