Comparative effectiveness of conservative and surgical interventions for toe walking in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: a systematic review - Summary - MDSpire
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Efficacy of Non-Surgical versus Surgical Treatments for Toe Walking in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review
To synthesize current evidence on reported outcomes of conservative and surgical interventions for toe walking in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
Approach:
Systematic Review: A PRISMA-based systematic review was conducted using PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scholar to identify studies reporting interventions for toe walking in children with ASD.
Key Findings:
Eight studies involving 424 ASD patients aged 2–16 years were included.
Conservative and multimodal conservative treatments generally reported higher improvement values than surgical and unimodal approaches.
Findings were unweighted and based on heterogeneous and non-equivalent outcome measures.
Interpretation:
Current evidence is of very low certainty and does not allow conclusions regarding comparative effectiveness or treatment superiority.
Limitations:
Substantial heterogeneity in study outcomes.
Very low certainty of evidence.
Findings should be considered descriptive and hypothesis-generating only.
Conclusion:
Further high-quality prospective studies using standardized clinical outcomes and long-term follow-up are required.