Patent ID: 8550980

Claim:
A method of treating a levator avulsion, the method comprising: making a vaginal incision, making a posterior incision, making an anterior incision that allows access to an obturator foramen, palpating levator muscle through the vaginal incision to identify a levator avulsion, making a posterior tissue path between the posterior incision and a region of levator muscle in a region of the levator avulsion, making an anterior tissue path between the anterior incision and the region of levator muscle, through the obturator foramen, providing an elongate implant comprising a support portion and two end portions, passing one of the two end portions through the anterior tissue path, passing one of the two end portions through the posterior tissue path, positioning the support portion to contact tissue of the levator muscle at a location in the region of the levator avulsion, and tensioning the implant to approximate tissue of the levator muscle, to support the levator muscle, and to relieve the levator avulsion.