Devices, systems and methods for fixating soft tissue to bone. In one embodiment, a repair device system for fixating soft tissue to bone includes a carrier member, multiple anchors, and a bone anchor. The carrier member includes multiple pad portions and a bone coupling portion. Each of the pad portions are aligned with an adjacent pad portion. The pad portions are configured to be positioned over a side of the soft tissue and the bone coupling portion is coupled to the multiple pad portions. Each anchor is sized and configured to extend through the at least one opening defined in one of the multiple pad portions and through the soft tissue. The bone anchor is configured to be coupled to the bone coupling portion and configured to be secured to the bone.

Disclosed are a lead method of suturing an acutely ruptured Achilles tendon and a device used in it. The suturing device includes a suture line, guide lines, a clamping instrument and suture needles. As performing suturing, the clamping instrument is inserted into the fascia sheath of Achilles tendon to clamp Achilles tendon, the suture line and the guide lines are made to penetrate Achilles tendon and skin through the threading hole on the clamping instrument by the suture needle, wherein the suture line is located far away from Achilles tendon rupture; the guide lines are used to guide the suture line, so that both ends of the suture line can penetrate Achilles tendon in turn along the guide lines, and the suture line is tightened and knotted on the two ruptured Achilles tendons.

Technologies are disclosed for an implant device that may be configured to repair tissue. The device may include a distal end configured to be connectable to at least a first part of the tissue. The device may include a proximate end configured to be connectable to at least a second part of the tissue. The device may include a substrate configured to form a connection between the first part of the tissue and the second part of the tissue. The device may include a longitudinal axis that may extend between the distal end to the proximate end within the substrate. The device may include at least one preformed channel in the substrate. The device may include at least one suture preloaded at least partially within the at least one channel. The at least one preformed channel may be formed during and/or proximate to a formation of the device.

Methods and system for the repair of a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament using a femoral attachment are provided. Aspects of the invention include a scaffold attached by a suture to an fixation device. The fixation device and suture are secured to a femur and not to a tibia near or at the repair site.

A repaired tendon includes a proximal tendon section having a free end, and a distal tendon section having a free end that opposes the free end of the proximal tendon section. Four bidirectional barbed sutures are implanted in the repaired tendon for approximating the free end of the proximal tendon section with the free end of the distal tendon section. Each of the four bidirectional barbed sutures includes a proximal section having proximal barbs that engage the proximal tendon section, a distal section having distal barbs that engage the distal tendon section, and a stop located between the proximal and distal barbs that engages the approximated free ends of the proximal and distal tendon sections. The bidirectional barbed sutures have first suture bites and second suture bites that are shorter than the first suture bites.

Devices, systems and/or methods for repairing soft tissue adjacent a soft tissue repair site. In one embodiment, a repair device includes an anchor member, a capture member and one or more flexible members. The anchor member includes a base with at least four legs extending integrally from the base, the at least four legs configured to be moveable from a straight first position to a formed second position. The capture member is configured to be coupled to the anchor member such that the at least four legs of the anchor member move around structural portions of the capture member with the at least four legs of the anchor member in the formed second position. The one or more flexible members are coupled to the base of the anchor member, the one or more flexible members extending at least partially along the base of the anchor member.

Systems and methods for preparing a ligament graft for a ligament reconstruction procedure are provided. In general, the described techniques utilize a graft preparation system having a holder and a delivery suture assembly removably coupled thereto. The delivery suture assembly can include a spine coupled with an anchor suture configured to form a self-tightening knot used to position the assembly around a graft and a plurality of suture windings configured to be affixed to the graft when the assembly is deployed. The assembly is delivered to the graft using the holder and the sutures can be affixed to the graft without penetrating therethrough. The spine helps to evenly distribute the load among the windings compressing the graft which are thus are capable of withstanding increased loads. Thus, an improved, simplified, and time- and labor-saving approach to preparing ligament grafts is provided.

A bio-compatible and bio-resorbable implantable device for repairing soft tissue which has a first plate and a second plate and a plurality of connecting elements for connecting the first and second plates is provided. The first plate has a first surface suitable for being placed on a first side of the soft tissue. The second plate has a second surface suitable for being placed on a second side of the soft tissue. Each connecting element has a first portion integral with the first plate and a second portion integral with the second plate. The connecting elements extend from at least one of the first surface of the first plate and the second surface of the second plate to reach the other one of the first surface of the first plate and second surface of the second plate for locking the first and second plates in a definable respective position.

Devices, systems and/or methods for repairing soft tissue adjacent a repair site. In one embodiment, a repair device includes a plate member and an anchor. The plate member having a periphery, the plate member configured to be positioned along an outer surface of the soft tissue. The anchor includes a base and six legs extending from the base, the six legs extending from the base being moveable to a curled configuration such that the six legs wrap around separate portions of the periphery of the plate member with the soft tissue therebetween. In this manner, the repair device may be anchored to the soft tissue.

A surgical device for performing a repair of lacerated or ruptured tendons is disclosed. The surgical device comprises a tip or first end, a base or second end opposite to the first end, and a length between the first and second end configured to pass at least in part through a tendon sheath. The surgical device increases in diameter from the first end to the second end over at least a portion of the length. The second end is shaped to accommodate retracted proximal end of the damaged tendons. The second end is inserted into a flexor fibro-osseous tunnel configured to distend and enlarge its pathway. The second end is sutured to the retracted proximal end and towed via the fibro-osseous tunnel, thereby providing a gentle, guided, and non-traumatic passage of the flexor tendon and retrieving the retracted proximal end of the damaged flexor tendon simultaneously to the repair zone.