Patent ID: 8795334

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a non-tubular flexible fixation member comprising a body with a longitudinal extent and a width and two free terminal ends at opposite ends of the longitudinal extent, the body defining a plurality of openings through the body, each of the plurality of openings formed through the width of the body; and a suture comprising two free terminal ends, the suture being interwoven through each of the plurality of openings in the body of the fixation member such that-multiple portions of the fixation member are slidably coupled to the suture and configurable to form a cluster within a surgical site and such that each terminal end of the flexible fixation member terminates proximate a different one of the two terminal ends of the suture; and such that the entirety of the suture is slidable with respect to the fixation member, wherein each of the free terminal ends of the suture are dimensioned for passage through each of the plurality of openings in the body of the fixation member.