About Narine
I rebuilt my own body first. Then I built a method around it.
Pain wasn't the enemy. Low capacity was. Everything I teach started with proving that on myself.
Tango dancing was my identity before any of this. It was stress relief, community, the thing that made me feel like myself. Then at 30, a knee injury during jiu jitsu turned into patellar tendinitis, and it hit at the same time I lost my job.
No income, no training, and a burning pain that consistently woke me up in the middle of the night. I tried chiropractors, creams, rest. Nothing worked. I finally found a trainer who specialized in rehabbing injuries and was inspired to get the same certification after I was out of pain. It took eight months to get out of chronic pain, and a full year before I was back to martial arts training.
The turning point wasn't a new treatment. It was a different question. My ligaments and tendons weren't weak because I was broken. They were weak because they'd never been properly strengthened. I rebuilt them on purpose, slowly, chasing adaptation instead of relief. At 31 I started Judo, pain free. The year after, Muay Thai.
Friends and family had been watching me rebuild and started asking for help. I got certified, took my first client within a week, and built what's now Knee Ability Narine.
80+
People out of pain
Clients rebuilt from the ground up, in person in Burbank, CA and online anywhere.
3 years
Coaching as Knee Ability Narine
Certified in 2023, the same day my corporate contract ended.
My approach
Pain was never the problem. Low capacity was.
Every session runs on one rule that doesn't bend: never push through pain. If something hurts, that's information, not something to work through.
Training with me isn't only about following a cookie-cutter program. The real results come from what I do beyond the program itself. I know when to push a client forward and when to have them regress. And if you have more than one injury, I know how to rehab the second and third injury too. Because every pain point in the body is connected. Knee, back, hip, groin, ankle, shin splint, and shoulder injuries all get treated with the same method, for the same reason.
I also ask for honesty, transparency, and humility in return, because you won't get results if you aren't honest about what you're feeling. The more honest you are, the faster I can adjust the plan.
If you're scared or in pain, I'll meet you at whatever pace you need, sometimes starting with a conversation or a meditation before any exercise begins.
With me, you're not getting a trainer who knows how to create a generic rehab program. You're getting an experienced coach who knows how to help people actually get out of pain safely.
Why this work
The first woman doing rehab training in my area.
When I started, there weren't other women doing rehab training in my market. I built my practice to fill that gap, and many of my clients, especially women, say they feel safer and better understood working with me.
I'm Armenian, and I'm especially motivated to serve people in my own community: strong, mobile, back to the sports they love, and still able to work and play with their grandchildren without pain.
I speak Armenian too. If that's easier for you, the whole thing can be in Armenian, from the first call through every session.