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Over 30,000 people suffer tendon injury in the UK per annum and over two thirds of these are hand tendon injuries. Hand tendon lacerations are notoriously difficult to treat and 25% of patients achieve an unsatisfactory clinical outcome as assessed by the clinician. Tendons are commonly repaired using suture, with many different suture configurations described in the literature for tendon repair. Despite many in vivo clinical studies and ex vivo tensile tests, many different repair techniques are employed in the clinical setting, demonstrating that there is not currently a best practice method of repairing ruptured tendons. Direct comparison between all repair methods, along with detailed observations of localised high stress and deformation would be valuable in determining a best practice repair method. This information can be obtained by the use of finite element analysis. The aim of this work was to produce a finite …