If your pain circles your wrists like a bracelet or wristwatch, the most likely muscle is between your shoulder blade and your ribs on your back. Imagine that your ribs and shoulder blade are the "bread" of a sandwich and the muscle is the "filling." That muscle (the filling) can have trigger points which cause wrist pain.
Trigger points are very irritable places in a muscle that cause pain elsewhere. In this case, trigger points in the muscle between your shoulder blade and ribs cause pain that circles your wrist. This can happen to one or both wrists at the same time.
If you "walk like a lion" on all fours and
ROLL your shoulder blades up like a lion does when he moves, that will help release and relax those muscles.
The idea is to get your shoulder blades moving. That will help relax the "filling" muscle that is attached to your ribs and shoulder blade.
If you cannot put your hand flat on the floor for any reason, then don't. Instead, make a fist and support your front two legs (you're a lion, remember?) on the fingers of your closed fist.
If you can't get on the floor, do your best to roll and move your shoulder blades. Can you still move them closer to your spine, like you did when you were a child? Can you lift your shoulders and roll them backward?
A skilled massage therapist can press into these muscles to help them relax, too.
Who would have known that a muscle in your back could cause wrist pain that circles your wrist like a bracelet?
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