Therapeutic effects of exercise interventions for children and adolescents with Autism: An umbrella meta-analysis

Exercise interventions are associated with improvements in social skills, repetitive stereotyped behaviors, and motor skills in children and adolescents with ASD. However, the overall certainty of evidence is low, and substantial heterogeneity and moderate-to-high overlap across meta-analyses warrant cautious interpretation. Exercise may represent a scalable, low-cost neuromodulatory adjunct within neurodevelopmental rehabilitation; future high-quality trials with long-term follow-up and clearly defined intensity and dose-response relationships are needed.