Maybe you can relieve the phantom pain, the phantom cramp.

The phantom limb they'll say, But doctor, the phantom limb is paralyzed.

Do they get phantom PMS?

The menace must remain phantom.

It was a paralyzed phantom arm.

You see the phantom within the aquarium.

Who has ever felt a phantom buzz?

He said, No, last three days, I've not had a phantom arm and therefore no phantom elbow pain, no clenching, no phantom forearm pain, all those pains are gone away.

Now, why would a phantom limb be paralyzed?

She did Cats and Phantom of the Opera.

I look like the Phantom of the Opera.

One of the things we've found was, about half the patients with phantom limbs claim that they can move the phantom.

And you all know what a phantom limb is.

Now, why do you get a paralyzed phantom limb?

Now, I said, Move your normal hand and phantom.

So, you have a patient with a phantom limb.

It's getting messages from vision saying the phantom is back.

The Pyramids, skyscrapers, phantom jets, the Great Wall of China

And I hold in my hand a tissue mimicking phantom.

I've had patients with the uterus removed hysterectomy who have a phantom uterus, including phantom menstrual cramps at the appropriate time of the month.

If the arm has been removed and you have a phantom, and you watch somebody else being touched, you feel it in your phantom.

I caught a glimpse of the phantom sitting behind the wheel.

I caught a glimpse of the phantom sitting behind the wheel.

And he started giggling, he says, I can see my phantom.

He had a phantom arm, excruciatingly painful, and he couldn't move it.

He looks at the phantom being resurrected, because he's looking at the reflection of the normal arm in the mirror, and it looks like this phantom has been resurrected.

And we approach this problem by considering another curious syndrome called phantom limb.

He's going to get the visual impression that the phantom is moving, right?

He said, Oh, I can't move my phantom. You know that. It's painful.

In fact, you can get a phantom with almost any part of the body.

So the ultrasonic transducer emits basically an ultrasonic beam that focuses inside the phantom.

And he says, Oh my God, my phantom is moving again. I don't believe this!

OK, now the next question is, what can you learn about phantom limbs by doing experiments?

He said, No, no, no, you know this phantom I've had for the last 10 years?

It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life and this is the key to it all.

But the problem is I still have my phantom fingers dangling from the shoulder, and your box doesn't reach.

However the next time Tetra's incarnation appears in 2007's The Phantom Hourglass she is kidnapped immediately during the intro.

And then, when you've amputated the arm, this learned paralysis carries over into your body image and into your phantom, OK?

How do you unlearn the learned paralysis, so you can relieve him of this excruciating, clenching spasm of the phantom arm?

Now, I said, now, look, wiggle your phantom your real fingers, or move your real fingers while looking in the mirror.

My first patient came in, and he looked in the mirror, and I said, Look at your reflection of your phantom.

Now the astonishing thing is, if you have pain in your phantom limb, you squeeze the other person's hand, massage the other person's hand, that relieves the pain in your phantom hand, almost as though the neuron were obtaining relief from merely watching somebody else being massaged.

When an arm is amputated, or a leg is amputated, for gangrene, or you lose it in war for example, in the Iraq war, it's now a serious problem you continue to vividly feel the presence of that missing arm, and that's called a phantom arm or a phantom leg.

Well, we said, what if you now send the command to the phantom, but give him visual feedback that it's obeying his command, right?

You have a cardboard box with a mirror in the middle, and then you put the phantom so my first patient, Derek, came in.