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2.5 CONCLUSIONS

The vestibular system plays an important role in the maintenance of the body balance. It is imperative to study this
system considering that vertigo affects a huge part of the older population. The research work presented in this chapter
has demonstrated once again the value of computational numerical simulation to study biological structures and
phenomena.
In conclusion, a better comprehension of the biomechanics of the vestibular system is the first step to plan different
kinds of simulations with numerical models. The vestibular system model built using several numerical methods, as
FEM and meshless methods, aims to be the first step to reinvent the rehabilitation process. The development of a tool,
which can help the audiologist in their daily practice, is an important step in such scientific field that can contribute to a
fast recovery from vestibular disorders.

Acknowledgments

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The authors acknowledge the funding by Minist erio da Ci^ encia, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior, Fundacão para a Ci^ encia e a Tecnologia, Portugal, and
Programa Operacional Capital Humano (POCH), comparticipado pelo Fundo Social Europeu e por fundos nacionais do MCTES under research
grants SFRH/BD/108292/2015, IF/00159/2014, and by project funding MITEXPL/ISF/0084/2017 and UID/EMS/50022/2013 (funding provided
by the interinstitutional projects from LAETA). Additionally, the authors gratefully acknowledge the funding of Project NORTE-01-0145-
FEDER-000022, SciTech, Science and Technology for Competitive and Sustainable Industries, co-financed by Programa Operacional Regional do
Norte (NORTE2020), through Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional (FEDER).

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I. BIOMECHANICS