Jurjen completed the bachelor's degree Bachelor of Physiotherapy in 1975, and Manual Therapy in 1978 at the Hogeschool Utrecht. After graduating, he started working as a physiotherapist and has worked in primary care for over 45 years. In 2008 he completed his dissertation “Managing Redundancy at Multiple Levels of Motor Control” under the supervision of Prof. dr. R.G.J. Meulenbroek.
Since 2008 he has been working with Prof. dr. Ruud GJ Meulenbroek to make knowledge from fundamental research available for practice. Jurjen has published various articles, gives courses to both master physiotherapy and psychology students and gives lectures to professionals and is founder of Soapweer B.V..
His promotion was the reason that Jurjen started developing innovative software applications that should bridge the gap between the prevailing principles in the field of Motor Control and daily practice. Jurjen does fairly controversial research and does not choose the beaten track. His position is that behavioral change is only possible if the perception changes within a certain context. Change the perception or change the context and you get motor output for free.