Hume was initially injured when away on international duty with Canada. The Whites revealed that Hume had picked up a hamstring strain and would be back withing two weeks or so.
The hamstring strain soon turned out to be false information given to the press as it was then correctly stated that Hume had been suffering from back spasms due to the flights to Canada from the UK.
Hume has still not appeared for Preston since his back injury and it now appears that he has damaged knee ligaments which could keep him out for some considerable time although Preston have been very coy about not releasing the full extent of Hume's injury and his likely period of absence.