Patent ID: 8961575
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A method of carpometacarpal repair, comprising the steps of: drilling a hole through a first metacarpal and a second metacarpal; providing a button/loop construct comprising a button with at least a pair of apertures, and a continuous flexible strand loop connected to the button by passing the flexible strand through the apertures, with opposing ends of the flexible strand terminating in a combined leg; passing the combined leg and the loop of the button/loop construct through the hole so that the loop extends through the hole in the first and second metacarpals, and pulling the combined leg and the loop so that the combined leg and part of the loop exit the hole on a lateral side of one of the metacarpals, and the button rests against a lateral cortex of the other metacarpal; removing the combined leg so that the opposing ends of the loop are free; and securing the free opposing ends to the lateral side of one of the metacarpals.