Patent ID: 7901456

Claim:
A method for fixing an anterior cruciate ligament graft in a bone tunnel in a patient's distal femur, comprising: engaging an anterior cruciate ligament graft to a graft receiving element on a fixation member, the fixation member being an expansion fixation member and having a body with a distal end and a proximal end and the graft receiving element being provided on a distal portion of the fixation member; inserting the fixation member distal end first into the bone tunnel in a patient's distal femur until the proximal end of the fixation member is substantially even with or slightly inside a bone tunnel edge and such that at least a portion of the anterior cruciate ligament graft passes proximally across the body of the fixation member and extends beyond the proximal end and out of the bone tunnel; and activating the fixation member from its proximal end by inserting a plug into a proximal opening to cause expansion of the fixation member to fix the fixation member and ligament graft within the bone tunnel proximate to the bone tunnel edge; wherein activating the fixation member further comprises engaging a pull element to the fixation member, slidingly engaging a push tool to the pull tool, and pushing on the push tool to advance the plug while holding in place the pull tool so as to activate the fixation member without pushing the fixation member further into the bone tunnel.