title: Muscle fatigue as an investigative tool in motor control: A review with new insights on internal models and posture-movement coordination.
abstract: Muscle fatigue is a common phenomenon experienced in everyday life which affects both our force capacity and movement production. In this paper, we review works dealing with muscle fatigue and motor control and we attempt to demonstrate how the Central Nervous System deals with this particular state. We especially focus on how internal models--neural substrates which can estimate the current state as well as the future state of the body--face this internal perturbation. Moreover, we show that muscle fatigue is an interesting investigative tool in understanding the mechanisms involved in posture-movement coordination.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Physiologie de l'Exercice (EA 4338), UFR-CISM/STAPS/Université de Savoie, 73376 Le Bourget du Lac, France. Electronic address: flomonjo@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Florian
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Monjo
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Physiologie de l'Exercice (EA 4338), UFR-CISM/STAPS/Université de Savoie, 73376 Le Bourget du Lac, France; Cevres Santé, Savoie Technolac, BP 322, 73377 Le Bourget du Lac, France.
authors.forename: Romain
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Terrier
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Physiologie de l'Exercice (EA 4338), UFR-CISM/STAPS/Université de Savoie, 73376 Le Bourget du Lac, France.
authors.forename: Nicolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Forestier
mesh_terms: D002490:Central Nervous System / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008959:Models, Neurological; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000502:physiology*; D018763:Muscle Fatigue / Q000502:physiology*; D011187:Posture / Q000502:physiology*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: Internal models; Motor control; Muscle fatigue; Posture–movement coordination