External therapies of Traditional Chinese medicine is widely used in the treatment of low back pain. This paper classified and summarized external therapies of Traditional Chinese Medicine such as acupuncture, moxibustion, tuina manipulation, scraping, cupping cans, external administration, acupotomy, buried line therapy low back pain.Conclusion:TCM external therapies show remarkable curative effect on low back pain, but no recognized evaluation standard on therapeutic effect for clinical research results to few randomized clinical trials that fit the standards of evidence based medicine. In the future, clinical studies shall adapt more strict design .conduct standard research, bring objected therapeutic effect so as to promote clinical application of TCM external therapies.