Best Answer - Chosen by Asker The muscles in your arm tightened up because of the pain to them caused by the break. The muscles can end up giving you pain any where along the muscle. To get rid of the pain you have to free up the muscles in your arm and the muscles in your wrist area are good ones to start with for they also travel up your forearm. Here's how to free them up: With your arm in front of you, your hand palm up, press your other thumb into the area where they take the pulse and press in firmly and hold. Now relax your body by taking a deep breath and exhaling. After 30 seconds slowly bend your hand open as far as it will go, then release the pressure on the nerves but continue holding pressure on the nerves for another 30 seconds. There are also other muscles there so this may not have released the right ones but you can feel where any pain is left yet, find the muscle it seems to be on and press into that muscle close to the area and do the same release as above and that should take care of the pain. Other Answers (1) It could be but it might be because your compensating for where you have broken it. I broke my wrist a year ago but the thing that hurt the most was my elbow and shoulder. the doctor said it was