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It's highly innervated (sensitive) and it's cartilaginous. Cartilage is mostly nonvascular, meaning that it doesn't have blood flow to it, and which also means healing takes forever.
Because it tends to hurt for a while due to the actual physical trauma, our nervous systems also tend to send the pain messaging well after the actual trauma, even if healing has taken place. This specific pain presentation is a form of chronic pain (mostly a nervous system disorder) that is usually onset by some sort of physical trauma.