Below is the treatment strategy adopted by AADF, which has proved to be effective in avoiding amputations, lowering the mortality rate and worsening co-morbid status:

• appropriate diagnostics of different types of diabetic foot disease

  • neuropathic diabetic foot (with or without ulcer)

  • neuropathic-infected diabetic foot

  • ischaemic diabetic foot

  • mixed neuro-ischaemic diabetic foot

  
  

• the treatment includes different modalities directed to

  • optimizing of the diabetic status of the patient

  • rational antimicrobial therapy along with the above

  • correct and in time revascularization of the lower limb

  • complex therapeutic measures

  
  

• rehabilitation

  • orthopedic rehabilitation of the weight-bearing foot commensurate to the life style of the patient

  • psychosocial rehabilitation of the diabetic foot patients for both after high level amputations and after limb preserving surgery

  
  

• monitoring and prevention of diabetic foot complications