Patent ID: 9289202
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: A61B,A61F

Claim Text:
1. A method for repairing a rotator cuff tendon that has detached from a head of a humerus, comprising the steps of: passing a screw through and entirely past an entry point on the humerus, without fixation of the screw at a location adjacent to the entry point, until the screw contacts a cortex of the humerus from an endosteal side of the cortex; inserting the screw in the cortex of the humerus from the endosteal side of the cortex for threaded engagement with the cortex at a point on the cortex of the humerus at which the screw is inserted; and then securing one or more sutures that have been sewn into the rotator cuff tendon to a suture-retaining device that is mechanically coupled to the screw, wherein the one or more sutures are secured to the anchor at a location within an intramedullary cavity of the humerus, that is not adjacent to the entry point on the humerus and is between the entry point on the humerus and the point on the cortex of humerus at which the screw is inserted.