Patent ID: 8075588

Claim:
A device for inserting an anchoring element and a suture thread into a bone to attach a tendon or a ligament without drilling a hole into said bone, comprising: an anchoring element, having a proximal end, a distal end, and a longitudinal axis, said anchoring element further having a continuous channel and an external thread, said anchoring element further having a continuous opening to accommodate said suture thread, said opening running transverse to said longitudinal axis of said anchoring element, and a tool for inserting said anchoring element and said suture thread, having a longitudinal axis, a distal end section and a further section being designed in such a way that it can be introduced into said anchoring element from said proximal end to said distal end, said tool being able to be inserted into said continuous channel of said anchoring element in such a way that said distal end section of said tool projects distally beyond said anchoring element, said projecting distal end section being designed as a stable driving head, wherein said tool comprises a tip at said distal end section having an end point, said end point of said tip having a position that is radially offset relative to said central longitudinal axis of said tool, said tool having a catching slit in said distal end to automatically accommodate said suture thread when inserting said tool into said anchoring element, and wherein said suture thread comes free from said catching slit when said tool is withdrawn from said anchoring element, and wherein the catching slit opens to a side opposite to a direction of the offset of the tip.