Systems and methods for receiving user-provided selection of electrode lists

A non-transitory machine-readable medium including instructions, which when executed by a machine, cause the machine to:

• implement a refinement algorithm to provide candidate active electrode lists for testing therapeutic effectiveness of sub-perception modulation, test therapeutic effectiveness to relieve pain including receive feedback regarding the therapeutic effectiveness to relieve pain of the sub-perception modulation for at least one of the candidate active electrode lists, and select one of the candidate active electrode lists as a desired active electrode list using the feedback, wherein the desired active electrode list is less than all available electrodes within one or more electrode arrays;
• program the implantable device to activate the electrodes identified in the desired active electrode list;
• and
• deliver the sub-perception modulation to the targeted tissue using the activated electrodes and using a modulation parameter set to promote uniformity of the sub-perception modulation field within the targeted neural tissue, the targeted neural tissue including dorsal horn tissue or dorsal root tissue,
• wherein the delivered sub-perception modulation using the desired active electrode list is therapeutically effective to relieve pain and uses less power than would be used to deliver sub-perception modulation using all of the available electrodes within the one or more electrode arrays.

A system for delivering sub-perception modulation to targeted neural tissue that includes dorsal horn tissue or dorsal root tissue, the system comprising:

• a neural modulation generator configured to use active electrodes within an arrangement of electrodes to generate a sub-perception modulation field, wherein the active electrodes are less than all available electrodes within the arrangement of electrodes;
• a communication module configured to receive user-provided selections;
• and
• a controller configured to:
• use the communication module to receive a user-provided selection of a desired active electrode list that identifies the active electrodes within the arrangement of electrodes for use in delivering sub-perception modulation to the targeted neural tissue;
• and
• control the neural stimulation modulator to deliver the sub-perception modulation field in pulse trains of at least two pulses using a modulation parameter set to promote uniformity of the sub-perception modulation field within the targeted tissue using the active electrodes identified in the desired active electrode list, wherein the delivered sub-perception modulation using the desired active electrode list is therapeutically effective to relieve pain and uses less power than would be used to deliver sub-perception modulation using all of the available electrodes within the arrangement of electrodes.