A patient with chronic right shoulder pain has learned that the use of imagery and guided meditation has helped control his pain. A family member asks how these techniques can help with pain. The nurse replies that these therapies can slow the release of transmitter chemicals in the dorsal horn change the cognitive and affective thoughts about the pain O prevent transmission of nociceptive stimuli to the brain increase the modulating effect of the efferent pathways

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