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Double ProMX MX1 champion Kyle Webster has undergone successful surgery to address carpal tunnel syndrome, with the Boost Mobile Honda Racing rider revealing he managed the condition throughout his entire outdoor title defence in 2025.

After sustaining a torn ligament in his hand at last year’s Queensland Moto Park (QMP) season-finale, it was initially believed that rest would be enough to recover the injury. However, persistent symptoms ultimately led to a carpal tunnel diagnosis.

Despite racing through discomfort for much of this year – at times managing periods of numbness in his hand – the 29-year-old underwent surgery following his second Motocross of Nations (MXoN) victory at Ironman Raceway, which he expects will resolve the issue.

“As far as I’m told, this should get rid of it all now,” Webster told MotoOnline. “Because it was, it was just a really weird one. Like, at the end of 2024, I had my hand [injury] at QMP, where I tore something across the top of my hand, but somehow that gave me carpal tunnel.

“So I’m still not really sure how, but that’s what I ended up with. And I’ve just been getting cortisone to manage it throughout the last year or so, because it would be good for a while, and [then] it’d flare up, and half my hand would go numb.

“Touch-wood, since surgery it’s been perfectly fine. But, yeah, it was just something that I needed to do. Otherwise, I was going to be managing it forever. And this just seemed like the best time to do it.”

With the MXoN and AUSX seasons closely aligned on the calendar, Webster acknowledged the challenge in balancing both commitments – particularly with the added involvement of the US-based Honda HRC Progressive team – though has dispelled suggestions he is a motocross-only rider.

“To ride Nations on the 250, you have to sort of pick that or supercross,” he added, after sitting out AUSX altogether this year while recovering from his operation. “It’s too much of a big deal now to be half-prepped for it or half-prepped for supercross… you’d be average at both.

“There’s too much support for [Nations], like I don’t want to go there and ride for the factory team and not be ready. In saying that, I can’t have this much time off every year – it kills me. A lot of people have asked me if I’m motocross-only, and I’m like, ‘No, it’s just been shit timing the last two years.”