hi,
thank-you for providing the brief history of you.
A thorough musculoskeletal assessment is advised.
As I gone through the history I feel you should consult a orthopedic and get the knee assessed. As the pain is still not reduced. Also, by understanding your mechanism of
injury I feel you must have injured your ligament. As you are 57, the degenerative changes in the knee must have been present and can damage any
soft tissue with smallest or hardest impact.
Also, your ortho may recommend you an
MRI of knee to see the soft tissues within the joint.
Post which the treatment will be planned. With proper medication and a combination of
physical therapy you will have better strength and your mobility will also improve.
in my clinical practice such cases of ligament injuries are always delayed to undergo physical therapy and the recovery time is delayed. So I advice you to take up at the earliest and make a
rehabilitation process start soon.
Regards
Jay Indravadan Patel