Aleks Baruksopulo
Podiatry Founding Partner – Musculoskeletal, Sports & Exercise
Aleks is an experienced Sports & Exercise Podiatrist with more than 20 years of sports clinical practice, specialising in Musculoskeletal, Sports, Running, and Exercise related conditions. Across his career he has completed over 40,000 patient consultations, earning a strong reputation on the Gold Coast for helping patients of all ages recover from injury, improve physical resilience, and return to the activities they love. In the 2026–27 NBL season, Aleks extends his expertise to elite basketball as the Sports Podiatrist for the Brisbane Bullets, providing specialised lower limb care and performance support within a professional sporting environment.
Throughout his two decades in practice, Aleks has worked extensively in multidisciplinary clinical settings, collaborating closely with physiotherapists, exercise physiologists, sports physicians, and orthopaedic surgeons. His approach is strongly grounded in data driven decision making, utilising VALD technology to objectively assess strength, load tolerance, and functional performance. Aleks also designed the foot and ankle testing protocol for the Sports & Spinal Group, helping standardise high-quality assessment across multiple clinics and ensuring consistent, measurable outcomes for both recreational and elite athletes. This integration of technology, clinical reasoning, and multidisciplinary collaboration is a defining strength of his practice.
Driven by the needs of the active population he treats, Aleks cofounded a sports and performance foot orthoses laboratory (Propel Orthotics), allowing him to design and manufacture highly customised orthotic devices tailored to the demands of runners, athletes, and high‑load performers. Using high definition laser scanners, Aleks captures the true three‑dimensional morphology of the foot with exceptional accuracy, ensuring every orthotic device is shaped precisely to the individual’s anatomy. This combination of advanced scanning technology, performance focused design, and hands‑on manufacturing ensures his patients from recreational runners to professional basketball players receive orthoses that enhance movement efficiency, optimise load distribution, and reduce injury risk.
Aleks’ connection to sport is both personal and professional. A former high-level junior basketball athlete, he has spent more than 30 years immersed in fitness, endurance sports, strength training, and athletic performance. His sporting pursuits have included Basketball, Triathlons, Half Marathons, Stillwater and Surfboat Rowing, and most recently Tennis a sport he describes as “incredibly frustrating, yet highly enjoyable to try and master!”. These experiences shape his understanding of injury, training load, recovery, and the realities of staying active across a lifetime.
Now in his mid 40s, Aleks blends lived experience with extensive clinical knowledge to emphasise the importance of strength, conditioning, and “smart” activity choices to maintain a resilient, well functioning body as it ages. He understands first hand what it takes to keep an active body performing well after decades of sport, and this perspective informs the guidance he provides to patients, athletes, and runners.
He is available for Musculoskeletal, Sports, Running, and Exercise Podiatry appointments at our Broadbeach and Burleigh clinics.