Patent ID: 8708886

Claim:
A method of supporting pelvic organs in a patient, the method comprising: forming a tissue incision providing access to the pelvic organs in the patient; inserting a knit material formed of a plurality of loops into the tissue incision; and supporting at least one of the pelvic organs in the patient with the knit material, where the knit material comprises a first filament knitted into a first chain of loops that are coupled together by having each loop of the first chain of loops suspended by a neighboring loop of the knit material, the first chain of loops being disposed along a first wale and the first filament being tied around individual loops along the first wale to form closed loops along the first wale, each of the closed loops including the first filament defining an ascending loop segment, a first descending loop segment, a transverse loop segment, and a second descending loop segment, the ascending loop segment passing upwardly from a descending loop segment of a first neighboring loop in the first wale and then curving downwardly to transition to the first descending loop segment, the first descending loop segment then extending downwardly to transition to a transverse loop segment that is tied transversely around the ascending loop segment of the first filament, the transverse loop segment then curving downwardly to transition to the second descending loop segment, the second descending loop segment then transitioning into an ascending loop segment of a second neighboring loop in the first wale and positioned opposite the first neighboring loop in the first wale.