Patent ID: 8423147

Claim:
A patient therapy system, comprising: a pulse generator programmed with instructions for delivering an electrical neural modulation signal; at least one patient-implantable signal delivery device coupleable to the pulse generator to receive the neural modulation signal, the signal delivery device including an elongated spinal cord lead body having multiple electrical contacts; and a practitioner remote control operatively coupleable to the pulse generator, the remote control having at least one input device and being programmed to change characteristics of the neural modulation signal directed from the pulse generator to the signal delivery device, the characteristics including: which of the multiple contacts the modulation signal is to be applied to; and an amplitude of the modulation signal, wherein the remote control automatically designates electrical contacts as anodic or cathodic without practitioner input, and wherein the remote control is incapable of changing the electrical contacts from anodic to cathodic or from cathodic to anodic based on practitioner input; and wherein the at least one input device is a first input device, and wherein the remote control further includes: a display medium; a machine-readable medium having instructions for simultaneously presenting at the display medium: a graphical indication of lead body locations; a graphical indication of signal amplitude levels available for signals delivered to the lead body; and a graphical indication of multiple patient pain levels as a function of lead body location and amplitude; and the at least one input device being operatively coupled to the machine readable medium to direct an input corresponding to a selection of lead body location, signal amplitude or both lead body location and signal amplitude for the neural modulation signal.