All-suture anchor inserter

摘要

An inserter for simultaneously creating a bone tunnel and delivering an all-suture anchor. The inserter is capable of inserting into the bone tunnel a soft, non-rigid suture anchor by forming a bone tunnel (to serve as an anchor receiving area) and simultaneously, in one motion, delivering the soft suture anchor to the anchor receiving area. The soft suture anchor is made entirely of non-rigid materials including, but not limited to, filaments of soft, malleable materials such as those commonly used to make sutures. The inserter is able to not only carry or deliver the all-suture anchor into a bony substrate, but is able to do so without having to preform a hole in the bone.

主权项

1. An all-suture anchor inserter, comprising:
an elongated shaft; a pair of tines positioned at one end of the shaft to define a passage forming portion for being pushed into a bone to therein create an anchor receiving area, wherein the tines are spaced apart to define a slot therebetween that forms an all-suture anchor carrying portion that is immediately proximal to said passage forming portion such that an all-suture anchor positioned in said all-suture carrying portion with be advanced into said anchor receiving area of said bone after said passage forming portion has formed said anchor receiving area; and a pair of broaching projections extending outwardly and oppositely from each of said pair of tines.