CAT - What does a positive palmar digital nerve block mean?

The PubMed database (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ pubmed/) was searched using the string “horse AND ((palmar digital nerve) OR (palmar digital nerves))”. Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the American Association of Equine Practitioners were searched using the International Veterinary Information Service database (http://www.ivis.org/search.asp) and the strings “palmar digital nerve aaep” and “palmar digital nerves aaep”. Thirdly, the journal ‘Equine Veterinary Education’ was searched using the Wiley online library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley. com/) and the string “palmar digital nerve”. An additional study that the author was aware of was also included [1]. Results were screened first by title and second by abstract. Where similar reports by the same authors were available as conference proceedings and journal articles, the former were excluded. Similarly, smaller case series were excluded where data collected over a longer period (same start time) by the same authors were also available. Review articles were excluded ...