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J. Biomedical Science and Engineering, 2009, 2, 480-483 JBiSE doi: 10.4236/jbise.2009.27069 Published Online November 2009 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/jbise/). Analysis of positive feedback in the control of movement Soroor Behbahani , Amir Homayoun Jafari 1 2 1,2 Biomedical Engineering Department, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. 1 2 Email: soroor_behbahani@; Amir_h_jafari@rcstim.ir Received 1 June 2009; revised 13 July 2009; accepted 15 July 2009. ABSTRACT 2. INTERACTIONS BETWEEN POSITIVE AND NEGATIVEFEEDBACK Over the past three decades, neurophysiologists studying the neural circuitry responsible for control of skeletal muscles have developed several different general theories of sensorimotor control. These have usually invoked one or more of the sources of pro- prioceptive signals (e.g. muscle spindle and Golgi tendon organ afferents) in positive or negative feed- back loops to the homonymous alpha motoneurones. In this paper we consider to analyze the role of posi- tive feedback in combination of negative feedback due to important role of them in stabilizing the neu- romuscular system. According to linear systems theory, positive feedback loops alone produce instability, while negative loops alone may require very high gains to be useful. The gen- eral advantage of combining positive and negative feed- back loops is that it reduces the sensitivity of system response to unpredictable variations in any of its com- ponents, for example, fatiguing of a muscle or increase of a mechanical load [5], without requiring excessive negative feedback gains. On the other hand, Prochazka [6] demonstrated that positive force feedback could also perform this role as- sisted by negative length feedback.