Abstract: Many advances have taken place in diabetic foot over past few years. The author had also developed various new concepts in diabetic foot over past many years. In this article, the author proposes an acronym “DIABETIC FOOT”, the letters of which represents the pathological lesions seen in diabetic foot. All the lesions in this acronym are covered in Amit Jain’s universal classification for diabetic foot.

Abstract: Screening of the foot is a well-known preventive strategy which is often neglected by many health care professionals. Various screening tool exist for foot with each having their own merits and demerits and their respective followers. One screening tool proposed by author, the Amit Jain’s triple assessment, is a new screening tool for diabetic foot that addresses the triopathy efficiently with minimum most parameters that should be assessed thereby rendering it an extremely easy to use and remember screening tool for every healthcare professional dealing with diabetes and diabetic foot. In this article, the author proposes a score to the LFT screening tool so that it leads to new prospects for research on this tool.