Patent ID: 9597175
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61F

Claim:
1. A method of making an orthopedic repair by fixing soft tissue or graft material to bone, comprising: placing a soft tissue or graft material on an implant; disposing said implant adjacent to bone at a desired location in a bone tunnel, the implant comprising a proximal end and a distal end, a first arm and a second arm on opposite sides of the implant, a wedge located distally of the first and second arms, and a pair of compression surfaces located proximally of the wedge; expanding the compression surfaces outwardly relative to one another to compress the soft tissue or graft material carried by the implant against the bone in the bone tunnel; and shortening an axial distance between the first and second arms and the wedge, until the first and second arms and the wedge engage, wherein engagement of the arms with the wedge causes the arms to deploy outwardly into bone.