The introduction of physiotherapy studies in Pontevedra was authorised in 1993 by Decree 192/1993, of 29 July, article 20, which integrated them into the newly created Faculty of Social Sciences of the city.

[2] However, the establishment of the physiotherapy programme on the Pontevedra university campus was finally effective in October 1995, when teaching began at the Faculty of Social Sciences.

[3] In 1998, the Regional Ministry of Education created the University School of Physiotherapy of Pontevedra by Decree 346/1998 of 20 November, in its article 7, separating the teaching of physiotherapy from the Faculty of Social Sciences in which it was housed until then.

[4] The courses were temporarily held at the School of Forestry Engineers until 2000, when the new building[3] designed by the architect José Ramón Rúa Rodríguez was inaugurated on the A Xunqueira campus, which was to become its definitive headquarters.

The Faculty has agreements with various private centres and with the Galician Health Service for clinical training.