Patent ID: 8790401

Claim:
A method of surgical reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament of a knee, comprising: forming a socket in a bone extending from a joint of the knee into the bone and having an orifice at the joint; folding over a graft having separable strands; installing a fixation device between the separable strands of the folded over graft near the orifice of the socket, the fixation device being concentrically positioned in the socket between the separable strands and axially aligned with the socket, the fixation device being oriented so as to approximate the anatomical attachment and functionality of the anterior cruciate ligament being replaced by separating and anatomically placing the separable strands of the graft with the fixation device into two anatomical bundles so as to reconstruct anteromedial and posterolateral bundles of the anterior cruciate ligament; and securing the graft in the socket with the fixation device.