Rupture Risk Assessment of Cervical Spinal Manipulations on Carotid Atherosclerotic Plaque by a 3D Fluid-Structure Interaction Model

Figure 3

The PWS and WSS distributions in each stretch simulated by the FSI models. The maximum region is indicated by arrows. The values of stress were heightening with larger stretch. The first row shows the PWS on the plague surface; the second row shows the WSS distribution during stretching.