Muscle fatigue as an investigative tool in motor control: A review with new insights on internal models and posture-movement coordination

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.