Patent ID: 9005245
Filing Date: 2015-04-14
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A joint fixation system, comprising: a circular button assembled prior to installation in a joint to an oblong button by a continuous looped flexible member having free ends, said circular button having a first body with a first shape having a first minor dimension and provided with four apertures extending through the first minor dimension and said oblong button having a second body with a second shape having a second minor dimension and provided with at least one second aperture extending through the second minor dimension, the free ends of said continuous looped flexible member extend through said minor dimension and from an exposed major dimension of said circular button; wherein the continuous looped flexible member is looped once through the circular button and looped twice through the oblong button, such that the free ends which extend through the circular button are capable of tractable pulling, and the continuous looped flexible member extends between the circular and oblong buttons four times and passes through all four apertures of the circular button; and wherein the joint fixation system compresses a first body joint tissue toward a second body joint tissue between the circular button and the oblong button when the free ends are pulled.