Claims
- 1. A method for anchoring in bone a member and attached suture, comprising the steps of:
- forming a hole in the bone;
- attaching a suture to a member; and
- lodging the member within the hole solely by pressing the member with attached suture into the hole so that the member becomes lodged therein in the absence of any manipulation of the member other than pressing the member with attached suture into the hole.
- 2. The method of claim 1 wherein the forming step includes the step of making the depth of the hole deeper than the cortical layer of the bone and wherein the lodging step includes the step of locating the member beneath the cortical layer.
- 3. The method of claim 1 including after the lodging step, the step of attaching tissue to the suture so that the tissue is secured against the bone.
- 4. The method of claim 1, including prior to the attaching step, the step of constructing the member to be a resilient, unitary member.
- 5. A method for anchoring a member in a bone, comprising the steps of
- threading a suture through the member;
- forming a hole in the bone; and
- pressing the member into the hole so that two contiguous segments of the suture extend from the hole.
- 6. The method of claim 3 wherein the tissue is a member of the group consisting of cartilage, tendon, or ligament.
- 7. The method of claim 5 including the step of selecting the member to be deformable and of a size such that the member is lodged within the hole solely as a result of the pressing step.
Parent Case Info
This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/715,113, filed Jun. 12, 1991 now U.S. Pat. No. 5,601,557, which was a divisional of application Ser. No. 07/192,813, filed Apr. 20, 1988, now abandoned, which was a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 06/848,341, filed Apr. 4, 1986, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,741,330, which was a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/496,116, filed May 19, 1983, abandoned, which was a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 07/380,043, fled May 20, 1982, abandoned.
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