The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
There is a technique that at one time was considered alternative, but now has a lot of mechanistic science to explain how it works, and it does indeed work for the treatment of chronic and also for acute pain. And that treatment is hypnosis in particular self-hypnosis.
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The data are that when people do self-hypnosis even brief self-hypnosis of 10 or 15 minutes, a few times a week, maybe even returned to that hypnosis by just using a one minute a day hypnosis, they can achieve significant and often very impressive degrees of pain relief in chronic pain whether or not that chronic pain arises through things like fibromyalgia or through other sources.