Paragraph Number

125

If desired, the proximal ends 312, 313, 322, 323 of the suture strands may be separated from the suture keeper 300, such as by cutting the sutures, and the ends of the sutures may be passed through the soft tissue to form adjunctive stitches to further anchor the soft tissue. The proximal suture ends are preferably used since any loads carried by the proximal suture ends only act perpendicularly on the proximal end of the anchor and thus they do not exert a significant axial force tending to dislodge the anchor body from the lateral tunnel 400.

Added by DJM 9 2021