1.   A borrowed bike he was riding exploded, leaving him with a paralyzed right arm, leg and speech problems.

2.   After a simple, three-week treatment involving mirrors, his paralyzed phantom arm suddenly vanished, as did the gnawing pain in his phantom elbow.

3.   Dole said his paralyzed arm had prevented him from becoming a heavy smoker.

4.   Greatly increased use of the paralyzed arm is what drives the brain to change, Taub said.

5.   His paralyzed left arm dangled uselessly.

6.   Ramachandran held her paralyzed arm in front of her.

7.   The patients regained three-quarters of the normal use of their paralyzed arms in just two weeks, he said.

8.   The researchers made maps of the small muscle that connects the thumb to the rest of the hand and used it as a surrogate for the paralyzed arm.

9.   The principle behind this treatment is that by constraining the undamaged arm, patients are forced to relearn how to use the paralyzed arm.

10.   The study is focused in part on people with a paralyzed arm who also develop a clenched fist and bent wrist.