Imbedding of locally unknotted one-dimensional manifolds in $E^3$

It is shown that each locally unknotted simple arc in three-dimensional euclidean space $E^3$ lies on a disc $D\subset E^3$, whence it follows that there exists a pseudo-isotopy of the space $E^3$ which carries a line segment into the locally unknotted simple arc.
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