Patent ID: 8105343

Claim:
A method for affixing a portion of soft tissue to adjacent bone, comprising: passing a first length of suture through a portion of soft tissue so that a first loop of suture is embedded therein; securing a first flee end of suture within a first suture snare; securing a second free end of suture within a second suture snare; withdrawing the first free end and the second free end through a suture guide; passing the first free end and the second free end through a first bone anchor; engaging the free ends with a suture tensioning mechanism; deploying the first bone anchor so that it lies beneath a cortical bone surface of the adjacent bone; and actuating the suture tensioning mechanism to tension the lengths of suture and approximate the portion of soft tissue to the adjacent bone, wherein the free ends may be jointly or independently tensioned, the actuating the suture tensioning mechanism comprises selecting a switch to jointly or independently tension the free ends.