The Trek Factory Racing team lost two of their riders to fractured left hands in early season races: Matthew Busche fractured his left scaphoid bone in a crash at the Mallorca Challenge on January 31, and Laurent Didier broke his fourth metacarpal in the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race the next day.
Both riders had surgery in Basel, Switzerland to correct the fractures, and while Didier's injury allows him to continue training, Busche's is more complicated.
The scaphoid, a small bone in the wrist that has a limited blood supply, is often difficult to heal. Busche's fracture required a special screw and bone transplant, and he will be in a cast for six weeks.
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The team said that their doctors "will attempt to make a special carbon cast after four weeks to accelerate his return to training, with the hope he can gain one or two weeks' time," according to Trek's web site.
Busche is recovering at his home in Spain.
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